AllanCrossman comments on Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AllanCrossman 06 April 2009 09:54:22AM 6 points [-]

So if you find you ARE that friend, presumably you'd have no fear of stepping in front of that gun barrel yourself for a few million flips right afterwards.

I don't believe so. While the person who underwent the experiment has a completely convincing proof of MWI+QTI, the friend doesn't. What he saw is just as unlikely under MWI as it is under Copenhagen.

Comment author: Nebu 16 April 2009 07:37:28PM 0 points [-]

If you didn't believe in MWI+QTI (i.e. had very low priors for), and you saw your friend claim to do a billion coin flips and not get shot, then even if you "refuse" to significantly increase your belief in MWI+QTI, wouldn't you at least increase your belief in the possibility that the gun is broken, and thus would not shoot you?

Comment author: MBlume 16 April 2009 07:52:04PM 1 point [-]

I would assume that the gun was broken and thus would not shoot me.

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