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I read this and told myself that it only takes five minutes to have an insight. Five minutes later, here's what I'm thinking:
Anthropic reasoning is confusing because it treats consciousness as a primitive. By doing so, we're committing LW's ultimate no-no: assuming an ontologically fundamental mental state. We need to find a way to reformulate anthropic reasoning in terms Solomonoff induction. If we can successfully do so, the paradox will dissolve.
Anthropic reasoning is confusing - probably because we are not used to doing it much in our ancestral environment.
I don't think you can argue it treats consciousness as a primitive, though. Anthropic reasoning is challenging - but not so tricky that machines can't do it.
It involves calculating a 'correct measure' of how many partial duplicates of a computation exist:
www.nickbostrom.com/papers/experience.pdf
Anthropics does involve magical categories.
Right - but that's "Arthur C Clark-style magic" - stuff that is complicated and difficult - not the type of magic associated with mystical mumbo-jumbo.
We can live with some of the former type of magic - and it might even spice things up a bit.
I fail to see how solomonoff can reduce ontologically basic mental states.