paulfchristiano comments on The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption - Less Wrong

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Comment author: paulfchristiano 11 April 2011 09:27:31PM *  0 points [-]

Any given real number has probability zero of being picked from the uniform distribution on [0,1) yet one certainly will be picked

I believe there are probably only countably many distinguishable observer moments, in which case this can't happen by countable additivity.

But you are certainly correct, that a lot goes into this assumption. I should be more clear about this; in particular, I should probably add a bunch of "may"'s.