What if Tegmark’s multiverse is true? All the equivalent formulations of reality would “exist” as mathematical structures, and if there’s nothing to differentiate between them, it seems that all we can do is point to appropriate equivalence class in which “we” exist.
However, the unreachable tortured man scenario suggests that it may be useful to split that class anyway. I don’t know much about Solomonoff prior—does it make sense now to build a probability distribution over the equivalence class and say what is the probability mass of its part that contains the man?
What if Tegmark’s multiverse is true? All the equivalent formulations of reality would “exist” as mathematical structures, and if there’s nothing to differentiate between them, it seems that all we can do is point to appropriate equivalence class in which “we” exist.
However, the unreachable tortured man scenario suggests that it may be useful to split that class anyway. I don’t know much about Solomonoff prior—does it make sense now to build a probability distribution over the equivalence class and say what is the probability mass of its part that contains the man?