It doesn’t seem to allow anything I couldn’t do before.
Yes, basically. This is “secretly” just a different way of looking at UDT, and this particular way is easy to get to from a standard game-theoretic starting point, but harder to get to from a “rationality is what wins” starting point.
Given that the non-anthropic problem is interesting because it introduces tension between these two viewpoints (sorta), this trick is interesting because it reduces that tension.
Yes, basically. This is “secretly” just a different way of looking at UDT, and this particular way is easy to get to from a standard game-theoretic starting point, but harder to get to from a “rationality is what wins” starting point.
Given that the non-anthropic problem is interesting because it introduces tension between these two viewpoints (sorta), this trick is interesting because it reduces that tension.
Given this framing I like it!
Yay!