wedrifid comments on Preference For (Many) Future Worlds - Less Wrong

18 Post author: wedrifid 15 July 2011 11:31PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 16 July 2011 08:04:02PM *  1 point [-]

In short, while some failure modes will become more common, others will not.

I agree (for the same reasons you specified.) It becomes even more complicated when trying to account for a probability distribution over possible quantum configurations that could lead to your own subjective state. Because culling from the futures of some possible current states makes the other possible 'now's considered to be more relevant there are additional failure modes that become even more likely to be relevant.