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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 November 2013 11:06:35AM *  1 point [-]

If anything this seems like a (weak) argument in favour of total utilitarianism, in that it doesn't suffer from giving different answers according to one's choice among indistiguishable theories.

Oh, total utilitarianism has its own problem with indistinguishable theories :-)

See http://lesswrong.com/lw/g9n/false_vacuum_the_universe_playing_quantum_suicide/ and http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/j3i/another_problem_with_quantum_measure/

Comment author: Irgy 18 November 2013 10:18:42PM 1 point [-]

Fair point, it sounds like it's a co-incidental victory for total-utilitarianism in this particular case.

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