KatjaGrace comments on On the Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

33 Post author: KatjaGrace 19 May 2011 07:30PM

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Comment author: KatjaGrace 20 May 2011 02:41:18AM 2 points [-]

I agree probably nothing sets apart particular copies as your future. But it shouldn't matter to questions like this. You should be able to conceptualise an arbitrary set of things as 'you' or as whatever you want to call it, even where there is no useful physical distinction to be made, and still expect probability theory to work.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 May 2011 03:01:27AM *  3 points [-]

and still expect probability theory to work.

Probability theory works on whatever probability spaces you define. This fact doesn't justify any particular specification of a probability space.