This argument is the same as Cian Dorr’s version with a weaker amnesia drug. In that experiment a weaker amnesia drug is used on beauty if Heads which only delays the recollection of memory for a few minutes, just like in your case the memory is delayed until the message is checked.
This argument was published in 2002. It is available before majority of the literature on the topic is published. Suffice to say it is not convincing to halfers. Even supporter like Terry Horgan admit the argument is suggestive and could run a serious risk of slippery slope.
Thank you for the reference! Indeed it’s very similar, the only difference is that my version relies on the beauty’s precommitment instead of the experimenter, but that probably doesn’t matter. Shame on me for not reading enough.
Nothing shameful on that. Similar arguments, which Jacob Ross categorized as “hypothetical priors” by adding another waking in case of H, have not been a main focus of discussion in literatures for the recent years. I would imagine most people haven’t read that.
In fact you should take it as a compliment. Some academic who probably spent a lot of time on it came up the same argument as you did.
This argument is the same as Cian Dorr’s version with a weaker amnesia drug. In that experiment a weaker amnesia drug is used on beauty if Heads which only delays the recollection of memory for a few minutes, just like in your case the memory is delayed until the message is checked.
This argument was published in 2002. It is available before majority of the literature on the topic is published. Suffice to say it is not convincing to halfers. Even supporter like Terry Horgan admit the argument is suggestive and could run a serious risk of slippery slope.
Thank you for the reference! Indeed it’s very similar, the only difference is that my version relies on the beauty’s precommitment instead of the experimenter, but that probably doesn’t matter. Shame on me for not reading enough.
Nothing shameful on that. Similar arguments, which Jacob Ross categorized as “hypothetical priors” by adding another waking in case of H, have not been a main focus of discussion in literatures for the recent years. I would imagine most people haven’t read that.
In fact you should take it as a compliment. Some academic who probably spent a lot of time on it came up the same argument as you did.