I have not agreement-downvoted, but I have read that post and I can say what bugs me. It’s mostly exemplified in the last paragraph:
A short example to show the difference: An incubator could create one person each in rooms numbered from 1 to 100. Or an incubator could create 100 people then randomly assign them to these rooms. “The probability that I am in room number 53” has no value in the former case. While it has the probability of 1% for the latter case.
This puts a lot of weight on what “randomly” means. It’s discussed in these comments: (1), (2).
Thank you for your reply. It prompted me to read up more on the thread.
I agree that Perspective-based Reasoning is unusual and maybe unintuitive. Maybe it’s also not the correct or best way to approach it. But I think it makes a quite good case. Linking to it seems relevant. I didn’t even make a claim as to whether it is correct or not (though I think it’s convincing).
The way out by rejecting probabilities of subjective existence is discussed in dadadaren’s Perspective-based Reasoning sequence, e.g. The First-Person Perspective Is Not A Random Sample https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/heSbtt29bv5KRoyZa/the-first-person-perspective-is-not-a-random-sample
Can anybody tell me why this is downvoted?
I have not agreement-downvoted, but I have read that post and I can say what bugs me. It’s mostly exemplified in the last paragraph:
This puts a lot of weight on what “randomly” means. It’s discussed in these comments: (1), (2).
Thank you for your reply. It prompted me to read up more on the thread.
I agree that Perspective-based Reasoning is unusual and maybe unintuitive. Maybe it’s also not the correct or best way to approach it. But I think it makes a quite good case. Linking to it seems relevant. I didn’t even make a claim as to whether it is correct or not (though I think it’s convincing).
I think it’s fair to express disagreement with the linked post using the agreement vote when a comment is almost only a linkpost.
With the agreement vote, obviously yes, but that didn’t seem to be what primarily happened.
Thanks, I’ll check it out!