Jiro comments on A resolution to the Doomsday Argument. - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Eitan_Zohar 24 May 2015 05:58PM

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Comment author: Jiro 26 May 2015 04:27:30PM 0 points [-]

Saying that "one can" do something in MWI is misleading because there are many "ones". If you don't commit suicide, there is a "one" who won and other "ones" who lost; if you do commit suicide, there is a "one" who won and the others are dead. Committing suicide doesn't cause you to win because you would have won in one of the branches in either situation.

Comment author: ike 26 May 2015 05:26:41PM 0 points [-]

Well, OP's argument would have many "ones" as well. Every simulated copy of me should count at least as much as it counts in MWI.