wedrifid comments on Fundamentals of kicking anthropic butt - Less Wrong
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Why do you end up with something different if you update in a different order? If you want a way to get the correct answer, work out why you do that and stop doing it!
I'd say it's because I should be updating in both cases, rather than starting with "I am an animal" or "I am a human". I should start with "I am conscious", because I can't not be, and then update from there.
I'm trying to show that picking reference classes arbitrarily leads to a contradiction, so SSA, as currently stated, doesn't work. If it does, what other solution is there to that paradox?