On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 08:17:34PM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > Is the DA incompatible with QI? According to MWI, your measure in the > multiverse is constantly dropping with age as versions of you meet > their demise. According to DA, your present OM is 95% likely to be in > the first 95% of all OM's available to you. Well, that's why you're a > few decades old, rather than thousands of years old at the > ever-thinning tail end of the curve. But this is still consistent with > the expectation of an infinite subjective lifespan as per QI. >
Incidently, this is the core of Jacques Mallah's argument against QTI. In the end, I discovered that his argument was internally consistent, but relied on the ASSA assumption, which I wasn't comfortable with. I wrote about this debate in my book. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
