CDT and EDT are also sensitive to their prior. The difference is that it’s a more familiar routine to define their prior by idealization of the situation being considered without getting out of scope, thus ensuring that we remain close to informal expectations. When building a tractable model for UDT, it similarly makes sense to specify its prior without allowing retraction of knowledge of the situation and escaping to consideration of all possible situations (turning the prior into a model of all possible situations rather than just of this one situation).
In the case of CDT and EDT, escaping the bounds of the situation looks like a refrigerator falling from the sky on the experimental apparatus. In the case of UDT, it looks like a funding agency refusing to fund the experiment because its results wouldn’t be politically acceptable, unless it’s massaged to look right, and the agents within the experiment understand that (and have no scientific integrity). I think it’s similarly unreasonable for both kinds of details to be included in models, and it’s similarly possible for them to occur in reality.
CDT and EDT are also sensitive to their prior. The difference is that it’s a more familiar routine to define their prior by idealization of the situation being considered without getting out of scope, thus ensuring that we remain close to informal expectations. When building a tractable model for UDT, it similarly makes sense to specify its prior without allowing retraction of knowledge of the situation and escaping to consideration of all possible situations (turning the prior into a model of all possible situations rather than just of this one situation).
In the case of CDT and EDT, escaping the bounds of the situation looks like a refrigerator falling from the sky on the experimental apparatus. In the case of UDT, it looks like a funding agency refusing to fund the experiment because its results wouldn’t be politically acceptable, unless it’s massaged to look right, and the agents within the experiment understand that (and have no scientific integrity). I think it’s similarly unreasonable for both kinds of details to be included in models, and it’s similarly possible for them to occur in reality.