I think there are some rather significant assumptions underlying the idea that they are “non-relevant”. At the very least, if the agents were distinguishable, I think you should indeed be willing to pay to make n higher. On the other hand, if they’re indistinguishable then it’s a more difficult question, but the anthropic averaging I suggested in my previous comments leads to absurd results.
the anthropic averaging I suggested in my previous comments leads to absurd results.
The anthropic averaging leads to absurd results only because it wasn’t a utility function over states of the world. Under heads, it ranked 50%Roger+50%Jack differently from the average utility of those two worlds.
I think there are some rather significant assumptions underlying the idea that they are “non-relevant”. At the very least, if the agents were distinguishable, I think you should indeed be willing to pay to make n higher. On the other hand, if they’re indistinguishable then it’s a more difficult question, but the anthropic averaging I suggested in my previous comments leads to absurd results.
What’s your proposal here?
The anthropic averaging leads to absurd results only because it wasn’t a utility function over states of the world. Under heads, it ranked 50%Roger+50%Jack differently from the average utility of those two worlds.