Manfred comments on No Anthropic Evidence - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 23 September 2012 10:33AM

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Comment author: Manfred 24 September 2012 01:19:11AM *  1 point [-]

Basically it's the same sort of reasoning that gets you quantum suicide - "if the gun is loaded all the 'me' sees all heads, while if the gun is unloaded only a small fraction of me sees all heads, therefore if I see all heads the gun is more likely to be loaded." One simply ignores the fact that the probability of all heads is the same in both cases.