I have a preference over the possible observer-moments which I personally may experience—I can consider two probability distributions over observer-moments and decide which one it would rather experience.
Also, here are a couple of other problems that I ran into, which I think you might be interested in, or have some ideas about.
If you use a UTM-based distribution, which UTM do you choose? Is there a notion of complexity that is not relative to something more or less arbitrary?
Using a UTM-based distribution seems to imply ignoring all the copies of you who are living in uncomputable worlds. It would be nice to have a complexity-based measure over all of math, but that seems impossible.
I was very confused about identical independent copies before. Right now the view given here is the best one I have thought of—more independent copies are more significant, just like copies running on more easily specified substrates. In this view copy immortality has no value—there is no difference between 2 copies with probability 1⁄2 and 1 copy with probability 1.
I have no idea how to choose a notion of complexity, either amongst UTMs or over some broader class of descriptions. I hope that at some point I will encounter a good argument for one choice or another, but I don’t yet know of any and its not clear why there would be a good argument.
I’m curious what your thoughts are on this post.
Also, here are a couple of other problems that I ran into, which I think you might be interested in, or have some ideas about.
If you use a UTM-based distribution, which UTM do you choose? Is there a notion of complexity that is not relative to something more or less arbitrary?
Using a UTM-based distribution seems to imply ignoring all the copies of you who are living in uncomputable worlds. It would be nice to have a complexity-based measure over all of math, but that seems impossible.
I was very confused about identical independent copies before. Right now the view given here is the best one I have thought of—more independent copies are more significant, just like copies running on more easily specified substrates. In this view copy immortality has no value—there is no difference between 2 copies with probability 1⁄2 and 1 copy with probability 1.
I have no idea how to choose a notion of complexity, either amongst UTMs or over some broader class of descriptions. I hope that at some point I will encounter a good argument for one choice or another, but I don’t yet know of any and its not clear why there would be a good argument.