FAWS comments on On the Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FAWS 22 May 2011 02:32:49PM *  1 point [-]

That's not what I was talking about though, I was talking about the perspective of the root. Obviously once you already are in a branch there is a fact as to whether you are in that branch, even if you can't tell yourself.

But the Anthropic Trilemma scenario we're discussing explicitly postulates this: that physically separate but identical copies of my body will be constructed, have identical experiences for a while, and then diverge.

Not as far as I can tell. The first experience after being copied is either winning the lottery or not.