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Albert says, tongue in cheek, that an agent should care about branches where he is fatter because ‘there is more of him’ on that branch.

  1. mathamaniac reblogged this from nostalgebraist
  2. eka-mark said: i think you need a hidden variable theory to have just one kind of probability :)
  3. lalaithion reblogged this from nostalgebraist
  4. raginrayguns said: thought experiment: imagine a species which is entirely a brain which is a flat sheet. They reproduce by getting thicker, and then splitting. Before splitting there is one, after splitting there is two? Yudkowsky’s solution: the “amount of them that there is” is proportional to the thickness
  5. raginrayguns said: larger brain, not necessarily fatter
  6. raginrayguns said: i mean not really
  7. nightpool said: @oligopsonoia both of these things are true