For those brave souls who reason in terms of measure
I’m confused about the justification for reasoning in terms of measure. While the MUH (or at least its cousin the CUH) seems to be preferred from complexity considerations, I’m unsure of how to account for the fact that it is unknown whether the cosmological measure problem is solvable.
Also, what exactly do you consider making up “your measure”? Just isomorphic computations?
Also, what exactly do you consider making up “your measure”? Just isomorphic computations?
Naively, probabilistically isomorphic computations, where the important parts of the isomorphism are whatever my utility function values… such that, on a scale from 0 to 1, computations like Luke Grecki might be .9 ‘me’ based on qualia valued by my utility function, or 1.3 ‘me’ if Luke Grecki qualia are more like the qualia my utility function would like to have if I knew more, thought faster, and was better at meditation.
Yeah… I ain’t a mathematician! If ‘measure’ turns out not to be the correct mathematical concept, then I think that something like it, some kind of ‘reality fluid’ as Eliezer calls it, will take its place.
I’m confused about the justification for reasoning in terms of measure. While the MUH (or at least its cousin the CUH) seems to be preferred from complexity considerations, I’m unsure of how to account for the fact that it is unknown whether the cosmological measure problem is solvable.
Also, what exactly do you consider making up “your measure”? Just isomorphic computations?
Naively, probabilistically isomorphic computations, where the important parts of the isomorphism are whatever my utility function values… such that, on a scale from 0 to 1, computations like Luke Grecki might be .9 ‘me’ based on qualia valued by my utility function, or 1.3 ‘me’ if Luke Grecki qualia are more like the qualia my utility function would like to have if I knew more, thought faster, and was better at meditation.
Ah, you just answered the easier part!
Yeah… I ain’t a mathematician! If ‘measure’ turns out not to be the correct mathematical concept, then I think that something like it, some kind of ‘reality fluid’ as Eliezer calls it, will take its place.