Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Aug 2014, at 03:21, Kim Jones wrote: On 9 Aug 2014, at 4:34 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Are you OK with Liz? The event eavesdropping and be split, in the non-destructive case, are independent, so the probabilities are multiplied 1/4 * 1/2 = 1/8. Any question

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-08 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:23 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 August 2014 09:11, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: a) with a destructive eavesdropping? This is surely 1 in 4. 1 out of 4 times your message is intercepted and reconstituted in Hell. So 1 in 4 times you go to Hell.

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Aug 2014, at 06:23, LizR wrote: On 8 August 2014 09:11, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You are on Earth, and you need, for some reason, to go urgently on Mars. Bad luck, you can't really afford the 100% secure quantum classical teleportation channel Earth-Mars, but you have

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Aug 2014, at 15:26, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:23 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 August 2014 09:11, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: a) with a destructive eavesdropping? This is surely 1 in 4. 1 out of 4 times your message is intercepted

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-08 Thread LizR
On 9 August 2014 06:25, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Otherwise teleportation will destroy you, so the chances are 0 in each case.) Strictly speaking this does not follow, as if comp is false, you might still survive with the help of some magic. But normally, without using the

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-08 Thread Kim Jones
On 9 Aug 2014, at 4:34 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Are you OK with Liz? The event eavesdropping and be split, in the non-destructive case, are independent, so the probabilities are multiplied 1/4 * 1/2 = 1/8. Any question PGC, people, John C, John M., anyone? Bruno

August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi all, This is my reply to John Clark. You can skip toward the last paragraph as it happens that the post ends with an exercise for everybody. A test of your understanding of the First Person Indeterminacy (FPI). It should not be difficult. It is the Exam Surprise of August :) On 05 Aug

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-07 Thread LizR
On 8 August 2014 09:11, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You are on Earth, and you need, for some reason, to go urgently on Mars. Bad luck, you can't really afford the 100% secure quantum classical teleportation channel Earth-Mars, but you have enough money to take a channel where it