how to define ASSA (was: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism)

2007-10-05 Thread Wei Dai
Russell Standish wrote: This is actually the SSSA, as originally defined by Bostrom. The ASSA is the SSSA applied to next observer moments. I guess there is a bit of confusing on these terms. I did some searching in the mailing list archives to find out how they were originally defined.

Re: how to define ASSA (was: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism)

2007-10-05 Thread Saibal Mitra
1) looks better because there is no unambiguous definition of next. However, I don't understand the shared by everyone part. Different persons are different programs who cannot exactly represent the observer moment of me. As I see it, an observer moment is a snapshot of the universe taken by

Re: how to define ASSA

2007-10-05 Thread Brent Meeker
Saibal Mitra wrote: 1) looks better because there is no unambiguous definition of next. However, I don't understand the shared by everyone part. Different persons are different programs who cannot exactly represent the observer moment of me. As I see it, an observer moment is a snapshot

Re: how to define ASSA

2007-10-05 Thread Saibal Mitra
Of course, we all live in the same universe in the sense that we are all simulated by brains that exist in this universe (described approximately by the Standard Model and General Relativity). The problem is how to define the observer moments rigorously at least in principle. It is undeniable