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My version of UDT (http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jub/updateless_intelligence_metrics_in_the_multiverse/) maximizes over programs written for a given abstract "robot" (universal Turing machine + input channels).
Regarding an abstract solution to logical uncertainty, I think the solution given in http://lesswrong.com/lw/imz/notes_on_logical_priors_from_the_miri_workshop/ (which I use in my own post) is not bad. It still runs into the Loebian obstacle. I think I have a solution for that as well, going to write about it soon. Regarding something that can be implemented within reasonable computing resource constraints, well, see below...
The prior space of universes is covered: unsurprisingly it's the Solomonoff prior (over abstract sequences of bits representing the universe, not over sensory data). Regarding the other stuff, my formalism doesn't give an explicit solution (since I can't explicitly write the optimal program of given length). However, the function I suggest to maximize already takes everything into account, including restricted computing resources.