nshepperd comments on Forked Russian Roulette and Anticipation of Survival - Less Wrong
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If the person who anticipates dying (with 1023/1024 probability) actually does die (1023/1024 of the time), then they actually gained something by not walking through the box, namely not dying! There's no analogy to two-boxing, where the supposed benefit is simply "having had correct reasoning".