Emily Adlam
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first heard Apr 2025
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So and and and insofar as you sort of agree that what we care about or what our goals should goals are isn't dictated by rationality.
It looks like there's not going to be any sort of rationally compelling way that you have to uh proceed in those cases.
And that that I think sort of is is problematic for a variety
of ways in which these these things are applied.
Self-locating credences are applied quite widely in physics and philosophy.
to cosmological multiverses, to the Everettian multiverse, to questions about Boltzmann brains, uh
to questions about the simulation argument, all of these things uh I think depend quite sensitively on um the assumption that there's some correct way of assigning your credences in these situations.
Uh so I think
Once once you you buy this kind of argument, you're going going to say, Well, maybe it maybe there's not in fact a ration a c rationally compelling way to do this and therefore we should be we should be more cautious about how we're using these things.
That's disappropriate.
Yes.
Great.
Yes.
Um so th I mean the way I think about it, uh
I'm I'm inclined to say that one Everettian multiverse is a single possible world, uh and therefore the various different locations you could be within the branching universe, that's a case of pure self-locating uncertainty.
Um and I think I think that's right because um uh the sort of the differentiating factor between pure self-locating uncertainty and superficial and self-locating uncertainty is that in the pure case there's no process which
decides what the outcome is.
There's just all of the outcomes just exist and there's nothing that picks which one is right.
That's kind of what happens in the Everettian multiverse and an Everettian measurement or something.
All of the outcomes occur.
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