On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:11:32PM -0700, Wei Dai wrote: > > Youness Ayaita wrote: > > Directly speaking: Since all observers must expect to get their next > > observer moments out of the same ensemble of observer moments, there > > is no reason to insist on different preferences. > > Youness, ASSA does not mean what you think, that "all observers must expect > to get their next observer moments out of the same ensemble of observer > moments." What it actually says is that each observer should reason as if > his observer moment was randomly selected from some distribution.
This is actually the SSSA, as originally defined by Bostrom. The ASSA is the SSSA applied to "next observer moments". I don't think Youness is meaning "acting" when he says "expect". I expect he means "reason" :) > > ASSA doesn't say anything about what to expect for the "next" observer > moment. The type of reasoning you can do with ASSA does not depend on the > concept of a "next" observer moment at all. > > I think what you have done is created a new philosophical assumption, that > says each observer should act (as opposed to reason) as if he expects his > next observer moment to be randomly selected from a universal distribution. > (This is a bit reminiscent to John Rawls's veil of ignorance.) To avoid > confusion, let's call it something else besides ASSA. > Lets not. Let's use Bostrom's orginal term SSSA for what you think the ASSA is. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
