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lackofcheese comments on Anthropic decision theory for selfish agents - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Beluga 21 October 2014 03:56PM

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Comment author: lackofcheese 23 October 2014 11:11:07PM 1 point [-]

There's some confusion here that needs to be resolved, and you've correctly pinpointed that the issue is with the indexical versions of the utility functions, or, equivalently, the gnomes who don't see a human at all.

I think I have a comprehensive answer to these issues, so I'm going to type it up now.