If there’s no way for me to figure out whether there’s a chocolate cake inside of the Sun or not, then I might as well assume there’s no cake, because this makes the math easier. I see MWI vs. no MWI the same way, but apparently that’s the wrong answer...
What about the question of whether something not in your light cone still exists?
Also, assuming something to make the math easier does not mean that it is meaningless. It may have little utility to calculate it if your utility function only counts things that affect you physically, although you’d still need the general rules for priors for things that can only be tested long term but influence decisions made short term.
It didn’t do much for me :-(
If there’s no way for me to figure out whether there’s a chocolate cake inside of the Sun or not, then I might as well assume there’s no cake, because this makes the math easier. I see MWI vs. no MWI the same way, but apparently that’s the wrong answer...
What about the question of whether something not in your light cone still exists?
Also, assuming something to make the math easier does not mean that it is meaningless. It may have little utility to calculate it if your utility function only counts things that affect you physically, although you’d still need the general rules for priors for things that can only be tested long term but influence decisions made short term.