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diegocaleiro comments on Preferences without Existence - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Coscott 08 February 2014 01:34AM

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 08 February 2014 07:26:05PM 0 points [-]

There should be a an alarm bell when he said "majority of your counterparts" and you accepted that.

Regardless, I'm curious because if you truly think all mathematical structures exist shaped and countable in proportion to how many Kolmogorov descriptions account for each, then you should not care about nearly anything and should live in the moment. Since nothing you do will ever change which Kolmogorov descriptions exist or fail to exist., in your deflated conception of existence.

Comment author: Coscott 08 February 2014 07:43:56PM 0 points [-]

I was interpreting his rejection to b to be replaced by something else in which "majority of your counterparts" makes sense.

I do not agree with this.

The counterfactual in which I thought I was agreeing that you should live in the moment was a scenario in which there was some other distribution in which most worlds are complex. (i.e. uniform over all programs expressible)