ShardPhoenix comments on Causal Universes - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 November 2012 06:02:24PM 8 points [-]

If simulating things doesn't add measure to them, why do you believe you're not a Boltzmann brain just because lawful versions of you are much more commonly simulated by your universe's physics?

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 29 November 2012 09:28:24AM 10 points [-]

If you can't tell the difference, what's the use of considering that you might be a Boltzmann brain, regardless of how likely it is?