Zen_Ved
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:42:50 -0700
Wei Dai: > I'm not sure what questionnaire Zen_Ved is referring to, but maybe it's this > paragraph from the mailing list invitation: > > Because this mailing list attracts people from many different academic > fields, and many posts have high technical content, it is suggested that > after joining, you post a message to the mailing list with the subject > "JOINING post". In this post, please give a brief biography of yourself and > tell us your intellectual backgrounds. What fields are you familiar with, > what relevant books/papers have you read, etc.? This way, if you don't > understand someone's post, you can look up his JOINING post in the archive > and figure out what background he is assuming. > > I copied this idea from the SL4 mailing list, I think. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "John Mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:49 AM ____________ As to "questionnaire Zen_Ved ", see http://www.weidai.com/everything.html Wei Dai's "everything'' mailing list Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998: _____________ ......... You are invited to join a mailing list for discussion of the idea that all possible universes exist. Some possible topics of discussion might include: - What is the set of all possible universes? - What is a reasonable prior/posterior distribution for the universe that I am in? - Why do we believe that both the past and the future are not completely random, but the future is more random than the past? - Before observing anything about the universe, should we expect it to have (infinitely?) many observers? - How can we/should we predict the future and postdict the past? _______________ Sorry, cheers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---