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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | There are many confused discussions of anthropic reasoning, both on LW and in surprisingly mainstream literature. In this article I will discuss UDASSA, a framework for anthropic reasoning due to Wei Dai. This framework has serious shortcomings, but at present it is the only one I know which produces reasonable answers to reasonable questions; at the moment it is the only framework which I would feel comfortable using to make a real decision. I will discuss 3 problems: 1. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of you (infinitely many of which are Boltzmann brains). How do you assign a measure to the copies of yourself when the uniform distribution is unavailable? Do you rule out spatially or temporally infinite universes for this reason? | |
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www.alignmentforum.org
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| | | | | Suppose you want to build a robot to achieve some real-world goal for you-a goal that requires the robot to learn for itself and figure out a lot of... | |
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joecarlsmith.com
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| | | | | Essay examining a certain sort of fundamental prior, called the "Universal Distribution." | |
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darkmattercrisis.wordpress.com
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| | | The following is a guest post by Indranil Banik. Indranil is a PHD student at the University of Saint Andrews, part of the Scottish Universities' Physics Alliance. He was born in Kolkata, India and moved to the UK with his parents a few years later.Indranil works on conducting tests to try and distinguish between standard... | ||
