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Lumifer comments on Updating on hypotheticals - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: casebash 06 November 2015 11:49AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 06 November 2015 03:46:10PM 0 points [-]

You keep on insisting that people have to update. Why do they have to?

Comment author: casebash 06 November 2015 10:30:54PM *  0 points [-]

Well, you don't have to update. As a first approximation, I'll just say that a perfectly rational agent would update if updating was costless. I've now edited this into the article.