Wei_Dai comments on Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma - Less Wrong
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The anthropic problem was a remaining problem for TDT, although not UDT.
UDT has its own problems, possibly. For example, in the Counterfactual Mugging, it seems that you want to be counterfactually mugged whenever Omega has a well-calibrated distribution and has a systematic policy of offering high-payoff CMs according to that distribution, even if your own prior has a different distribution. In other words, the key to the CM isn't your own distribution, it's Omega's. And it's not possible to interpret UDT as epistemic advice, which leaves anthropic questions open. So I haven't yet shifted to UDT outright.
(The reason I did not answer your question earlier was that it seemed to require a response at greater length than the above.)
Hi, this is the 2-week reminder that you haven't posted your longer response yet. :)