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

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Comment author: homunq 14 May 2013 04:10:27PM *  0 points [-]

I don't think I had overlooked the point you brought up: I said "...naively speaking it seems that [MWI] should be something more akin to 3^^^3 (or googolplex) than to 3^^^^3. So the problem may still exist..."

As to the idea that everything is just a hopeless mess once you bring MWI into it: that may indeed be a reason that this entire discussion is irresolvable and pointless, or it may be that the "MWI" factors precisely balance out on either side of the argument; but there's no reason to assume that either of those is true until you've explored the issue carefully.