Anyway. We have a better way to think about anthropic problems now: UDT! It gives the right answer in my problem, and makes the DA go away, and solves a whole host of other issues. So I don’t understand why anyone should think about SSA or Bostrom’s approach anymore. If you think they’re still useful, please explain.
When it comes to deciding how to act, I agree that the UDT approach to anthropic puzzles is the best I know. Thinking about anthropics in the traditional way, whether via SSA, SIA, or any of the other approaches, only makes sense if you want to isolate a canonical epistemic probability factor in the expected-utility calculation.
When it comes to deciding how to act, I agree that the UDT approach to anthropic puzzles is the best I know. Thinking about anthropics in the traditional way, whether via SSA, SIA, or any of the other approaches, only makes sense if you want to isolate a canonical epistemic probability factor in the expected-utility calculation.
In the context of the Doomsday Argument, or Great Filter arguments, etc., UDT is typically equivalent to SIA.