(In response to this (pdf) think piece by Adam Elga at Princeton)
Mostly because first I need to applaud Adam's setup and tear-down on this. I especially liked the "I'm *not* defending this overly broad misconstrual of my argument that I'm anticipating in my paper" bit.
On to the meat of it. This gives an entire generation of Dr. Evil-building writers a lot of meat to work with.
The real question that occurs to me is, wouldn't the applied version of the argument be something like (if you're hell-bent on evil-overlord galactic domination, as every proper Dr. Evil should be): Indifference until you can distinguish the the difference, and then beat the PDF to death with a lead pipe?
Meaning, I wonder if there's a game theoretic extension to this that leads to a fun takeoff from here?
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