DanielLC comments on Yet another Sleeping Beauty - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: DanielLC 22 November 2011 05:00AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 24 November 2011 07:19:20PM 0 points [-]

Consider Parfit's hitchhiker. If your strategy is to pay him the money, you'll do better, but when it comes time to implement that strategy, you have information that makes it pointless (you know he already picked you up, and he can't not have done it in response to you not paying him).

In this case, the evidence is certain, but it can be modified so that the amount of evidence you have before making the decision is arbitrary.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 November 2011 04:15:31PM 0 points [-]

Parfit's hitchhiker can still predict that when he has been picked up, he will have the option of not paying. Is there anything in the argument I actually make that you are objecting to?