Russell Standish wrote:
>
>You are arguing that it is possible to have an absolute measure for
>each observer moment, as well as a relative measure on the transitions
>between observer moments. Of course this is correct.
>
>However, the ASSA and the RSSA are more than that. The SS stands for
>self sampling, ie the principle that one should reason as though one's
>own observer moment were sampled from the A or the R measure
>respectively. With the RSSA, only the birth moment is sampled
>according to an absolute measure, so it is an elaboration of the
>SSA. I'm not sure how compatible the ASSA is with the SSA.
>
>The ASSA and RSSA are incompatible principles, even if both absolute
>and relative measures are compatible.
Well, perhaps the problem is that we don't have definite agreement on this
list about how these acronyms are defined--for example, Hal Finney gave
different definitions on the original "Request for a glossary of acronyms"
thread, in his post at
http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m4778.html --
"ASSA - The Absolute Self-Sampling Assumption, which says that you should
consider your next observer-moment to be randomly sampled from among all
observer-moments in the universe.
RSSA - The Relative Self-Sampling Assumption, which says that you should
consider your next observer-moment to be randomly sampled from among all
observer-moments which come immediately after your current observer-moment
and belong to the same observer."
And as I said in my response to that post at
http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m4782.html , I would prefer to define
the ASSA in terms of reasoning as if your *current* observer-moment is
randomly sampled from the set of all observer-moments, weighted by each
observer-moment's absolute probability.
Jesse
Received on Thu Jun 09 2005 - 19:36:48 PDT