🧩 Philosophy 1d ago · Elias Schmied

PSA: There's a third option in the "measure problem"

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This post is somewhat niche, and I will sometimes not give context or link relevant background.There’s a big debate that has played out in slow motion on LessWrong over the past two decades, between two broad ways of putting a measure over all possible realities (Tegmark IV):Some “objective” prior (a “reality fluid”), usually a simplicity prior[1]: This is the position taken by Max Tegmark, Jürgen Schmidhuber and UDASSA.A “caring measure”, where we say that our preferences determine our probabil