reference class of SSA

From: Wei Dai <weidai.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 00:17:09 -0700

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 09:37:03AM -0700, hal.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> I think that Nick Bostrom, who (as far as I know) conceived of and named
> the SSA, was not thinking in terms of the Strong SSA. When he discusses
> "my" birth rank, he is implicitly assuming that I am the same observer
> today that I was when I was born. I think it is best, therefore, to
> distinguish the two assumptions by giving them names in this form.

I think what you call "Strong SSA", Nick calls "SSA with observer-moments
as the reference class". One of his papers is supposed to have a
discussion of whether the reference class should consist of observers or
observer-moments, but I am unable to find it. (Nick, if you're reading
this please point us to the paper.)
Received on Sun May 23 1999 - 00:18:02 PDT