Wei Dai writes:
> Living in this universe is like living in a universe with a
> halting-problem oracle, right? If you want to know whether program x
> halts, you just measure the n-th pseudorandom event, where n is such that
> the n-th theorem is "x halts." Yes? 

What about the instantiations of people who measure the event the other
way before the universe gets restarted and re-run from that point?  They
would see the wrong answer to the halting question, but they are just
as conscious as the people who later see the right answer.

Hal

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