âThe blackmail situation seems analogous to the Counterfactual Mugging, which was created to highlight how Eliezerâs 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 âBut look how locally bad this decision is!â isnât telling Eliezer anything he doesnât already know, and isnât engaging with the reasoningâ
I just control-F searched the paper Schwarz reviewed, for âEverettâ, âquantumâ, âmany-worldsâ and âbranchâ and found zero hits. Canât really blame Schwarz for ignoring an argument that does not appear in the paper! Thereâs no mention of these in the Soares and Levinstein FDT paper that did get published in J Phil either.
âThe blackmail situation seems analogous to the Counterfactual Mugging, which was created to highlight how Eliezerâs 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 âBut look how locally bad this decision is!â isnât telling Eliezer anything he doesnât already know, and isnât engaging with the reasoningâ
I just control-F searched the paper Schwarz reviewed, for âEverettâ, âquantumâ, âmany-worldsâ and âbranchâ and found zero hits. Canât really blame Schwarz for ignoring an argument that does not appear in the paper! Thereâs no mention of these in the Soares and Levinstein FDT paper that did get published in J Phil either.