HungryHobo comments on Newcomb versus dust specks - Less Wrong Discussion
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Computational theory of identity so some large number of exact copies of the same individual experiencing the same thing don't sum, they only count as once instance?
That too. But my reasoning holds in the more general case, where instead of it being 3^^^3 copies of me, it was 3^^^3 entities from the pool of people who would choose specks.