shminux comments on Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 30 March 2012 06:25:32AM *  0 points [-]

I'm yet to see how either the SSA or the SIA thinking can be instrumentally useful without reframing the SB problem in a way that lets her achieve a goal other than spitting out a useless number. Once you reformulate the problem in a way that the calculated number affects her actual survival odds, the SSA vs SIA musings quickly disappear.