Adele_L comments on Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2013 12:43AM

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Comment author: Adele_L 06 May 2013 01:38:59AM 0 points [-]

So it looks like the Pascal's mugger problem can be reduced to two problems that need to be solved anyway for an FAI: how to be optimally rational given a finite amount of computing resources, and how to assign probabilities for mathematical statements in a reasonable way.

Does that sound right?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 May 2013 01:54:37AM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure I agree with that one - where does the question of anthropic priors fit in? The question is how to assign probabilities to physical statements in a reasonable way.