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MugaSofer comments on If MWI is correct, should we expect to experience Quantum Torment? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MugaSofer 10 November 2012 07:09:43PM *  0 points [-]

What about anthropics? Should we care more about the worlds where we exist?

EDIT: Wait, that's nonsense.

Comment author: wedrifid 11 November 2012 03:58:34AM 3 points [-]

What about anthropics? Should we care more about the worlds where we exist?

EDIT: Wait, that's nonsense.

I'd say "ridiculous", not "nonsense". An agent certainly could care about said worlds and not about others. Yvain has even expressed preferences along these lines himself and gone as far as to bite several related bullets. Yet while such preferences are logically coherent I would usually think it is more likely that someone professing them is confused about what they want.

Comment author: MugaSofer 12 November 2012 03:57:36PM 1 point [-]

I would usually think it is more likely that someone professing them is confused about what they want.

Indeed. I was thinking about subjective probabilities, without noticing that what I expect to observe isn't what I expect to happen when dealing with anthropics.

I was pretty tired ...