Re: A question concerning the ASSA/RSSA debate

2007-09-20 Thread Youness Ayaita
On 20 Sep., 04:04, Russell Standish wrote: The way I use the term, the ASSA just refers to use a global measure for answering the question What is my next OM experienced. For other questions using a global measure over OMs, the original term SSSA (strong SSA) should be used. I'm aware of a

Re: A question concerning the ASSA/RSSA debate

2007-09-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 18/09/2007, Youness Ayaita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What remains unclear in this definition is the term reference class which is also the source of the ASSA/RSSA debate. When we want to know which observer moment to expect next, we look at the class of all observer moments provided with a

Re: A question concerning the ASSA/RSSA debate

2007-09-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:48:58AM -0700, Youness Ayaita wrote: So, I don't see any need for some kind of fundamental measure for observer moments. Whenever we have a restriction defining a subclass of observer moments that are of interest, we are naturally driven to the RSSA and to a

A question concerning the ASSA/RSSA debate

2007-09-18 Thread Youness Ayaita
When Bruno spoke of the ASSA I looked up some messages in this list dealing with the ASSA and RSSA. My message does not aim at initiating yet another controversial discussion of the subject. But I rather hope that you will assist me resolving a misunderstanding. Searching for the self-sampling