lmm comments on Functional Side Effects - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Coscott 14 January 2014 08:22PM

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Comment author: lmm 15 January 2014 01:03:38PM 1 point [-]

Simulating someone isn't a side-effect, it's an output (at least, depending on your anthropic assumptions). There's something weird going on here - what if Omega does the simulation inside a rotating black hole, or otherwise causally separated from you, it seems paradoxical that this simulation should have any effect on your behavior - but I think the issue is in your decision theory, not in the simulation function.