2009/2/8 Jack Mallah <[email protected]>: > Suppose you differentiate into N states, then on average each has 1/N of your > original measure. I guess that's why you think the measure decreases. But > the sum of the measures is N/N of the original. > > This is trivially obvious so I saw no reason to mention it explicitly in the > paper. If there are people other than Russell with the same confusion, then > I may add it in.
I still find this confusing. Your argument seems to be that you won't live to 1000 because the measure of 1000 year old versions of you in the multiverse is very small - the total consciousness across the multiverse is much less for 1000 year olds than 30 year olds. But by an analogous argument, the measure of 4 year old OM's is higher than that of 30 year old OM's, since you might die between age 4 and 30. But here you are, an adult rather than a child. Should you feel your consciousness more thinly spread or something? -- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
