watermark's Shortform
Jul 152
The Anthropic Shadow is the wall of worlds where observation stops — you can't observe events incompatible with your survival. I wondered if the Anthropic Shadow could have fuzzy boundaries. What that would mean is that the Shadow would prune some of you as you approached it, but not all...
Background: I'm thinking through anthropics on my own to form my own views, here are some working notes There's been disputes about how to define a reference class in anthropic reasoning. I think you can skip those disputes by letting the choice of reference class be a degree of freedom....