Will_Sawin comments on On the Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 21 May 2011 12:37:09AM 3 points [-]

Just because it all adds up to normalcy doesn't mean that it is irrelevant.

It is more elegant to just have a decision theory than to have a decision theory and a rule for updating, and it deals better with corner cases.