The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption — LessWrong
There are many confused discussions of anthropic reasoning, both on LW and in surprisingly mainstream literature. In this article I will discuss UDAS…
x The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption — LessWrong UDASSA Born Probabilities Anthropics Personal Blog 112 The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption by paulfchristiano 11th Apr 2011 9 min read 45 112 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 fe
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