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JGWeissman comments on Revisiting the anthropic trilemma I: intuitions and contradictions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JGWeissman 16 February 2011 12:42:12AM 1 point [-]

I'd actually defined the utility of a universe as the average utility of my copies therein

Why not the sum?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 February 2011 07:40:33AM 0 points [-]

Because I get to say what my intuitions are :-) And they are that if I have a hundred copies all getting exactly the same nice experience, then this is just one positive experience. However, in my next post, I don't get to define my utility based on my intuitions, I have to follow some assumptions, and so I don't end up in the same place...

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