Oligopsony comments on Open thread, July 23-29, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Can Blindsight-style Scramblers employ anthropic reasoning?
To the extent that anthropic reasoning works at all, it doesn't seem like sentience should be needed.
To use an analogy, it seems to me that this non-sentient site is sort of using anthropic reasoning.
So would a rock with the same inscription. Which is to say, it's not the non-sentient site, but the sentient author and reader, who are using reasoning of any sort.
Not sure what Scramblers are exactly, but in 2001 I came up with some ideas about how AIs could do something like anthropic reasoning, without being sentient (which eventually incorporated into UDT). Here's the original post I wrote, which was titled no need for anthropic reasoning .