Comment on Anthropic decision theory for selfish agents

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:07:41 GMT

I feel like you are searching for disconfirmation and then stopping.

E.g.

One cannot add agents to an anthropic situation and expect the situation to be necessarily unchanged.

It's true, one can't always add agents. But there are some circumstances under which one can add agents, and it is important to continue on and identify how this can work. It turns out that you have to add gnomes and then add information that lets the humans know that they're humans and the gnomes know that they're gnomes. This works because even in anthropic situations, the only events that matter to your probability assignment are ones that are consistent with your information.

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