V_V comments on What's Wrong with Evidential Decision Theory? - Less Wrong

15 Post author: aaronde 23 August 2012 12:09AM

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Comment author: V_V 23 August 2012 11:44:00PM 0 points [-]

Your example contains several unstated assumptions: * People know their sexual orientation * The decision to take the vaccine is voluntary * People base that decision on their sexual orientation

Hence the decision to take the vaccine with an unknown sexual orientation never occours.