antigonus comments on 11 Less Wrong Articles I Probably Will Never Have Time to Write - Less Wrong

23 Post author: lukeprog 23 October 2011 02:44AM

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Comment author: antigonus 24 October 2011 04:56:47PM 0 points [-]

Could you clarify? Which posts are you referring to?

If you do write that article, I'd be very interested to read it.

Comment author: Manfred 24 October 2011 08:58:47PM 0 points [-]

So Eliezer's articles related to The Anthropic Trilemma and Boltzmann Brains basically treat the "Dr. Evil" problem as an easy introduction to harder problems. Katja Grace also has some really good articles on anthropic reasoning, some here and some on her own blog.

Comment author: antigonus 24 October 2011 09:26:22PM 1 point [-]

I'm having trouble seeing the relevance of either of those posts. Elga's article is about static self-locating belief, i.e., which of two individuals I should believe myself to currently be. Eliezer seems only to be questioning the coherence of dynamic self-locating belief, i.e., which individual I should believe to be my future self. And I'm not presently sure how the Boltzmann Brain post touches on this at all.