So ultimately the problem with anti-inductors (who use anti-induction exactly because it never worked before) is that they get removed by evolution, even if they can defend themselves quite well in philosophical debates.
A thought experiment with an anti-inductor Alice, who was created in your mind right now, seems to make sense. But let’s give this Alice some history… imagine that she is 20 years old… what exactly was she doing during the previous years? Was she an anti-inductor? Did she eat? If not, how is she still alive? (She admits that her strategy has not worked in the past.)
Or, imagine that someone creates a perverse virtual reality, where anti-induction is rewarded and induction is punished. How exactly would such reality even work? Suppose you get uploaded into this simulation, but you know the rules, therefore… on Day 1, you will do exactly the things that never worked before, and it is a huge success! But, what are you going to do on Day 2? There are no more “things that never worked before”, because things that never worked before Day 1, they all worked on Day 1...
So ultimately the problem with anti-inductors (who use anti-induction exactly because it never worked before) is that they get removed by evolution, even if they can defend themselves quite well in philosophical debates.
A thought experiment with an anti-inductor Alice, who was created in your mind right now, seems to make sense. But let’s give this Alice some history… imagine that she is 20 years old… what exactly was she doing during the previous years? Was she an anti-inductor? Did she eat? If not, how is she still alive? (She admits that her strategy has not worked in the past.)
Or, imagine that someone creates a perverse virtual reality, where anti-induction is rewarded and induction is punished. How exactly would such reality even work? Suppose you get uploaded into this simulation, but you know the rules, therefore… on Day 1, you will do exactly the things that never worked before, and it is a huge success! But, what are you going to do on Day 2? There are no more “things that never worked before”, because things that never worked before Day 1, they all worked on Day 1...