TheAncientGeek comments on I need a protocol for dangerous or disconcerting ideas. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 12 July 2015 04:59:58AM 3 points [-]

the idea that during sleep my mind declines enough to merge into other experiences and I awake into a world I would consider alien, with perfectly consistent memories.

An entity with self-consistent memories is astronomically more likely to be found in a world which matches those memories, than in some mismatched world. The latter has a complexity penalty equal to all the extra mismatched complexity.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 July 2015 12:01:53PM 0 points [-]

Under what assumptions?