Anything that is “SIA” is also “SSA,” since SIA can be produced by adding on more information.
No it’s not. If you add on “you are an observer who is a human”, you update with the universes with human observers being more likely. They do work the same if you use different priors. Namely: make universes with more people proportionally more likely in SSA, or less likely in SIA, and just use “conscious observer” as your reference class, and you’d get the same thing.
Probabilities come from information. So priors come from your starting information. Which information you label “starting” is completely arbitrary, however—you can’t get different answers just by relabeling what you know.
So any problem that you can look at from an SIA perspective, you can also take a step back and look at it from an SSA perspective—it just means labeling less information “starting” information.
No it’s not. If you add on “you are an observer who is a human”, you update with the universes with human observers being more likely. They do work the same if you use different priors. Namely: make universes with more people proportionally more likely in SSA, or less likely in SIA, and just use “conscious observer” as your reference class, and you’d get the same thing.
I still don’t see how your method works.
Probabilities come from information. So priors come from your starting information. Which information you label “starting” is completely arbitrary, however—you can’t get different answers just by relabeling what you know.
So any problem that you can look at from an SIA perspective, you can also take a step back and look at it from an SSA perspective—it just means labeling less information “starting” information.