Manfred comments on Self-locating beliefs across identity fission - Less Wrong

1 Post author: lukeprog 03 March 2012 03:14AM

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Comment author: Manfred 03 March 2012 05:09:13AM *  0 points [-]

He makes the critical mistake of treating probabilities as inherent properties of flipping the coin, rather than an expression of an agent's knowledge. Specifically, the "move probability to the successor states" operation gets formulated as if the universe kept track of a special variable called "probability," rather than probability being something that people do based on information.

Other than that pretty good, but once critical mistake is all it takes.