I tentatively agree with all the points you make above. This is a general principle: it shouldn’t matter where or when the mind making a decision is, the decision should come out the same, given the same evidence. In the case of instrumental rationality, it results in the timeless decision theory (at least of my variety), where the mind by its own choice makes the same decision that its past instance would’ve precommited to make. In the case of prisoner’s dilemma, the same applies to the conclusions made by the players running in parallel (as a special case). And in the cases of anthropic hazard, the same conclusions should be made by the target of the paradoxes and by the other agents.
The genuine problems begin when the mind gets directly copied or otherwise modified in such a way that the representation of evidence gets corrupted, becoming incorrect for the target environment. Another source of genuine problems comes from indexical uncertainty, such as in the Sleeping Beauty problem, the case I didn’t carefully think about yet. Which just might invalidate the whole of the above position about anthropics.
I tentatively agree with all the points you make above. This is a general principle: it shouldn’t matter where or when the mind making a decision is, the decision should come out the same, given the same evidence. In the case of instrumental rationality, it results in the timeless decision theory (at least of my variety), where the mind by its own choice makes the same decision that its past instance would’ve precommited to make. In the case of prisoner’s dilemma, the same applies to the conclusions made by the players running in parallel (as a special case). And in the cases of anthropic hazard, the same conclusions should be made by the target of the paradoxes and by the other agents.
The genuine problems begin when the mind gets directly copied or otherwise modified in such a way that the representation of evidence gets corrupted, becoming incorrect for the target environment. Another source of genuine problems comes from indexical uncertainty, such as in the Sleeping Beauty problem, the case I didn’t carefully think about yet. Which just might invalidate the whole of the above position about anthropics.