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40 Post author: gothgirl420666 13 July 2013 02:42AM

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Comment author: drethelin 13 July 2013 04:04:29AM 15 points [-]

Why does anyone care about anthropics? It seems like a mess of tautologies and thought experiments that pays no rent in anticipated experiences.

Comment author: cousin_it 13 July 2013 08:42:13AM 2 points [-]

Not sure about anthropics, but we need decision theories that work correctly with copies, because we want to build AIs, and AIs can make copies of themselves.