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HungryHobo comments on Newcomb versus dust specks - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: ike 12 May 2016 03:02AM

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Comment author: HungryHobo 13 May 2016 01:06:35PM 0 points [-]

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?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 13 May 2016 04:55:03PM 0 points [-]

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.