LEmma comments on Pascal's Muggle (short version) - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 May 2013 11:36PM

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Comment author: LEmma 15 January 2015 03:40:05PM 0 points [-]

I'm confused because I had always thought it would be the exact opposite. To predict your observational history given a description of the universe, solomonoff induction needs to find you in it. The more special you are, the easier you are to find and thus the easier it is to find your observational history.