Eugine_Nier comments on Personal Evidence - Superstitions as Rational Beliefs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 26 March 2013 02:02:57PM -2 points [-]

Likewise, the winner of the lottery observes the same number twice, which is some evidence for various crazy hypotheses where the selection of "I" necessarily coincides with the winner.

In my example of two worlds, the odds of observing the observed evidence is the same in both worlds and so there is no update.

What set of worlds are you postulating for your "two numbers" example? Because your example, as far as I understand it, doesn't seem at all analogous.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 March 2013 04:33:43AM 1 point [-]

The point is that if the lottery is biased it's more likely to be biased in such a way that the same number repeats.