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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | (Cross-posted from Hands and Cities. Content warning: especially niche topic.) Some readers of my recent sequence on anthropics suggested that I consider an approach that they find especially plausible - namely, UDASSA (or the "Universal Distribution" plus the "Absolute Self-Sampling Assumption"). So, partly on this prompting, and partly from pre-existing interest, I spent some time learning about UDASSA, and talking to people who like it. What is UDASSA? Roughly, UDASSA is anthropics for people who really like the Universal Distribution (UD), which is a way of assigning prior probabilities to hypotheses (see my previous post for details). UDASSA's hope is that, having discovered the UD, it has done a lot to solve anthropics, too: all you need to do is to ap... | |
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finmoorhouse.com
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joecarlsmith.com
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| | | | | If you find a button that gives you a hundred dollars if a certain controversial meta-ethical view is true, but you and your family get burned alive if that view is false, should you press the button? No. | |
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www.qri.org
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| | | Quantifying Bliss: the purpose of life and an algorithm for what makes experience valuable. | ||
