I think I understood your point, but maybe didn’t make my own clear. What I’m saying is that to recover “normality” you don’t have to care about some agents less, but can instead care about everyone equally, and just consider that there are more copies of some than others. I.e., in the continuous version of Solomonoff Induction, programs are infinite binary strings, and you could say there are more copies of simple/lawful universes because a bigger fraction of all possible infinite binary strings compute them. And this may be more palatable for some than saying that some universes have more magical reality fluid than others or that we should care about some agents more than others.
I agree with this, but I am not sure if you are trying to make this argument within my hypothesis that existence is meaningless. I use the same justification within my system, but I would not use phrases like “there are more copies,” because there is no such measure besides the one I that I assign.
Yeah, I think what I said isn’t strictly within your system. In your system, where does “the measure that I assign” come from? I mean, if I was already a UDT agent, I would already have such a measure, but I’m not already a UDT agent so I’d have to come up with a measure if I want to become a UDT agent (assuming that’s the right thing to do). But what do I based it on, and why? BTW, have you read my post http://lesswrong.com/lw/1iy/what_are_probabilities_anyway/ where option 4 is similar to your system? I wasn’t sure option 4 is the right answer back then, and I’m still in the same basic position now.
Well in mind space, there will be many agents basing their measures on different things. For me, it is based my intuition about “caring about everyone equally,” and looking at programs as infinite binary strings as you describe. That does not feel like a satisfactory answer to me, but it seems just as good as any answer I have seen to the question “Where does your utility function come from?”
I have read that post, and of course, I agree with your reasons to prefer 4.
I think I understood your point, but maybe didn’t make my own clear. What I’m saying is that to recover “normality” you don’t have to care about some agents less, but can instead care about everyone equally, and just consider that there are more copies of some than others. I.e., in the continuous version of Solomonoff Induction, programs are infinite binary strings, and you could say there are more copies of simple/lawful universes because a bigger fraction of all possible infinite binary strings compute them. And this may be more palatable for some than saying that some universes have more magical reality fluid than others or that we should care about some agents more than others.
I agree with this, but I am not sure if you are trying to make this argument within my hypothesis that existence is meaningless. I use the same justification within my system, but I would not use phrases like “there are more copies,” because there is no such measure besides the one I that I assign.
Yeah, I think what I said isn’t strictly within your system. In your system, where does “the measure that I assign” come from? I mean, if I was already a UDT agent, I would already have such a measure, but I’m not already a UDT agent so I’d have to come up with a measure if I want to become a UDT agent (assuming that’s the right thing to do). But what do I based it on, and why? BTW, have you read my post http://lesswrong.com/lw/1iy/what_are_probabilities_anyway/ where option 4 is similar to your system? I wasn’t sure option 4 is the right answer back then, and I’m still in the same basic position now.
Well in mind space, there will be many agents basing their measures on different things. For me, it is based my intuition about “caring about everyone equally,” and looking at programs as infinite binary strings as you describe. That does not feel like a satisfactory answer to me, but it seems just as good as any answer I have seen to the question “Where does your utility function come from?”
I have read that post, and of course, I agree with your reasons to prefer 4.