lackofcheese comments on Simulation argument meets decision theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lackofcheese 24 September 2014 10:37:42PM *  2 points [-]

The idea is that they have the same utility function, but the utility function takes values over anthropic states (values of "I").

U(I am X and X chooses sim) = 1
U(I am Xi and Xi chooses sim) = 0.2 etc.

I don't like it, but I also don't see an obvious way to reject the idea.