MBlume comments on Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 April 2009 10:26PM

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Comment author: MBlume 05 April 2009 11:19:21PM 9 points [-]

I don't think it should influence his behavior very much. Even if he assigns strong probability to being in a holodeck, his expected utility calculations should, I think, be dominated by the case in which he is in fact PotUS, since a president is in a better position to purchase utility.