Maybe visibility of UDASSA is small? Even I, despite lurking on LW for 10 years, didn’t recognise it immediately. As I know, there is no proper scientific article about Wei Dai’s theory and most of it is presented on a half-dead site where some interesting links, like “history of UDASSA” are dead. Also, UDASSA can’t be find using Google scholar.
However, Muller doesn’t mentioned the dust theory either.
Yes, it’s a pity that Wei Dai’s work was not mentioned. However, it looks like that Muller and Wei Dai tried to answer different questions. Wei Dai wrote about decision theories, and Muller tries to derive foundations of quantum mechanics and other physical laws from relation of observer-moments.
Does UDASSA include concepts like the “observer graph” and “graph machine” that Muller describes in the paper? Is Muller just filling out details that are inevitable once you have the core UDASSA concept?
Isn’t this Wei Dai’s UDASSA? Why doesn’t the paper mention that? Previously discussed on LW many times, e.g. here.
Maybe visibility of UDASSA is small? Even I, despite lurking on LW for 10 years, didn’t recognise it immediately. As I know, there is no proper scientific article about Wei Dai’s theory and most of it is presented on a half-dead site where some interesting links, like “history of UDASSA” are dead. Also, UDASSA can’t be find using Google scholar.
However, Muller doesn’t mentioned the dust theory either.
Yes, it’s a pity that Wei Dai’s work was not mentioned. However, it looks like that Muller and Wei Dai tried to answer different questions. Wei Dai wrote about decision theories, and Muller tries to derive foundations of quantum mechanics and other physical laws from relation of observer-moments.
You’re thinking of UDT which is a different thing. Read about UDASSA, it’s not a decision theory, it’s exactly what is described in Muller’s paper.
Does UDASSA include concepts like the “observer graph” and “graph machine” that Muller describes in the paper? Is Muller just filling out details that are inevitable once you have the core UDASSA concept?
I think these details are inevitable if you have UDASSA and want transition probabilities, but I don’t want transition probabilities :-)