’The blackmail situation seems analogous to the Counterfactual Mugging, which was created to highlight how Eliezer’s decision theories sometimes (my flippant summary) suggest you make locally bad decisions in order to benefit versions of you in different Everett branches. Schwartz objecting “But look how locally bad this decision is!” isn’t telling Eliezer anything he doesn’t already know, and isn’t engaging with the reasoning’
I just control-F searched the paper Schwarz reviewed, for “Everett”, “quantum”, “many-worlds” and “branch” and found zero hits. Can’t really blame Schwarz for ignoring an argument that does not appear in the paper! There’s no mention of these in the Soares and Levinstein FDT paper that did get published in J Phil either.
’The blackmail situation seems analogous to the Counterfactual Mugging, which was created to highlight how Eliezer’s decision theories sometimes (my flippant summary) suggest you make locally bad decisions in order to benefit versions of you in different Everett branches. Schwartz objecting “But look how locally bad this decision is!” isn’t telling Eliezer anything he doesn’t already know, and isn’t engaging with the reasoning’
I just control-F searched the paper Schwarz reviewed, for “Everett”, “quantum”, “many-worlds” and “branch” and found zero hits. Can’t really blame Schwarz for ignoring an argument that does not appear in the paper! There’s no mention of these in the Soares and Levinstein FDT paper that did get published in J Phil either.