DanArmak comments on Stupid Questions Thread - January 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 22 January 2014 10:16:20AM 0 points [-]

I think you do if you use UDT or TDT.

I'm not an expert, but I got the impression that UDT/TDT only tells you to treat yourself as a random person from the class of persons implementing the same decision procedure as yourself. That's far more narrow than the set of all observers.

And it may be the correct reference class to use here. Not future!yous but all timeline!yous - except that when taking a timeful view, you can only influence future!yous in practice.