Houshalter comments on Solomonoff Cartesianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Houshalter 14 March 2014 01:46:29AM 0 points [-]

Here is the problem as I understand it: It's not that it can't predict it will die. It's that it can't predict what it will observe when it dies. It is trying to predict it's observations in the future, even if it doesn't exist in the future. What does a non-existing being observe?