Will_Sawin comments on On the Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 21 May 2011 02:46:53AM 3 points [-]

I think the important point is that Bayesian conditionalization is a consequences of a decision theory that, naturally stated, does not invoke Bayesian conditionalization.

That being:

Consider the set of all strategies mapping situations to actions. Play the one which maximizes your expected utility from a state of no information.