Saibal Mitra wrote:
> Now there exists a class of universes, with a very low measure, in >which the laws of physics are such that I am guaranteed to win. The >probability that I find myself in such a universe will have increased >substantially after each experiment. After a few years I will be sure to >live in such a universe. It would be easy to check, all I would have to do >is to buy a ticket and see if I have won without using the suicide machine. Just do the computation. At each suicide you will survive in the nearer world from the one you left. That is: the more normal world relatively to you. Of course you will be sure that you live in such a universe, but you will be wrong. If you stop to use the suicide machine you will stop winning (unless you are using explicitely the suicide machine for filtering just a world where you win without suicide machine, but then that is an another experiment). Look at the iteration 64 times of simple self-duplication WM. Among the 2^64 resulting person, one will believe ending up always at W, but if you iterate *again* 32 times you know that this one will have 2^32 - 1 descendant knowing that the expection was wrong, and only one believing (more and more) having been magically linked to Washington. Bruno
