steven0461 comments on Where Experience Confuses Physicists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 30 September 2009 10:53:22PM *  4 points [-]

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I think it would be a good habit for people here to take explicit notice whenever decision-making concepts and consciousness/sentience concepts occur in association. Other than that decision-makers can have preferences about consciousness/sentience, decision-making and consciousness/sentience don't obviously have anything to do with each other. (Not that I object to parent comment, I just needed a place to say this.)

Comment author: Wei_Dai 30 September 2009 11:53:34PM *  2 points [-]

Yes, I agree. In fact, in UDT, decision making doesn't depend on consciousness/sentience, but in the standard formulation of anthropic reasoning, it does. So I would count that as an advantage for UDT (and actually it was the original motivation for me to consider it).