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Coscott comments on Preferences without Existence - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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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)