Wei_Dai 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: Wei_Dai 03 March 2012 08:54:56AM 6 points [-]

Luke, I'm confused by your occasional links to academic papers. There are a lot of papers out there related to topics we discuss. (I once collected and skimmed or read every paper I could find on the Sleep Beauty and Absent-Minded Driver problems, and there were something like 50 at that time.) How are you deciding which papers to link to? (Also, I'm surprised you have the time to look at papers like these, now that you're the Executive Director and no longer a researcher.)

Comment author: CarlShulman 03 March 2012 09:25:33AM *  3 points [-]

It seems better to consolidate these posts into bibliography posts by subject, perhaps updating the old posts. The single-paper posts clog Discussion too much.

ETA: on further consideration, I hold this view less strongly.

Comment author: Giles 03 March 2012 06:31:22PM 6 points [-]

I feel slightly more motivated to read these papers if they're presented one at a time.

Comment author: komponisto 03 March 2012 06:44:01PM *  3 points [-]

I feel that it's better to err on the side of posting too much rather than posting too little. High posting frequency is probably the number one thing that a blog-based community needs to stay alive. (Quality is also important, but that is hardly an issue in Luke's case.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 03 March 2012 10:18:07AM 2 points [-]

I don't see a problem with someone saying (implicitly) "hey, I spotted this paper I found interesting on this topic of local interest" and don't see it as "clogging" Discussion.

Comment author: CarlShulman 03 March 2012 04:58:20PM 3 points [-]

There's a difference between one person posting one thing, and one person posting many over a short period. The latter person can reduce congestion without reducing the information conveyed by consolidation.

Comment author: lukeprog 08 April 2012 04:56:09AM 0 points [-]

Posting this link here instead of making a separate discussion post about it.

Bradley, Four Problems about Self-Locating Belief (2012):

In this article I defend the Doomsday Argument, the Halfer Position in Sleeping Beauty, the Fine-Tuning Argument, and the applicability of Bayesian confirmation theory to the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. I will argue that all four problems have the same structure, and I give a unified treatment that uses simple models of the cases and no controversial assumptions about confirmation or self-locating evidence. I will argue that the troublesome feature of all these cases is not self-location but selection effects.

Comment author: Goobahman 03 March 2012 04:03:07PM 0 points [-]

I'm guessing this is one of Luke's ways of bringing some focus to the research of Rationality in the Academic world, and its significance to the LW community.

I hypothesize that he see's a gap there that needs more bridging.

(just my humble estimation)

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