The weird thing here is how anthropics might interact w/ the organization of the universe. Part of this is TDT-ish.
For example, if you were to construct this scenario (one big brain, three smaller brains) and you had control over which one each would prefer to be, how would you line up their preferences?
Given no other controls, I’d probably construct them such as they would prefer to be the construction they are.
So, it seems worth considering (in a very hand wavy and weak in terms of actual evidence) prior is that in worlds where I expect things like myself are setting up experiments like this, I’m slightly more likely to be an instance of the one I would have the preference of being.
The weird thing here is how anthropics might interact w/ the organization of the universe. Part of this is TDT-ish.
For example, if you were to construct this scenario (one big brain, three smaller brains) and you had control over which one each would prefer to be, how would you line up their preferences?
Given no other controls, I’d probably construct them such as they would prefer to be the construction they are.
So, it seems worth considering (in a very hand wavy and weak in terms of actual evidence) prior is that in worlds where I expect things like myself are setting up experiments like this, I’m slightly more likely to be an instance of the one I would have the preference of being.