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Squark comments on SUDT: A toy decision theory for updateless anthropics - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Benja 23 February 2014 11:50PM

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Comment author: Squark 24 February 2014 08:39:44PM *  0 points [-]

updating definitely is the right thing to do epistemically, but plugging these probabilities into the expected utility calculation gives the wrong result

Why do you think epistemic questions are meaningful? This way of thinking gets you in trouble with the Anthropic Trilemma, and I don't think there is a good way out of there.

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