2013/12/5 Jason Resch <[email protected]> > > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 05 Dec 2013, at 09:53, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2013/12/5 Jason Resch <[email protected]> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Measure is relative, >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, so your current measure of next finding yourself in a Drelb >>>> continuation, is relatively low compared to the measure of you still being >>>> conscious on Earth. But if you point a quantum gun at your head and pull >>>> the trigger 30 times, your Earth-continuation measure continues to fall, it >>>> is reduced by a factor of a billion. At this point, your Drelb-based >>>> extensions may become relatively higher than your Earth-based extensions, >>>> and therefore you would be likely to experience a transition to those >>>> realms of higher measure. >>>> >>>> >>>>> it doesn't drop while you approach death. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Your measure drops whenever you make yourself more unique, >>>> >>> >>> You doesn't, you always have an infinity of continuations. >>> >> >> >> In measure theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics) ) >> just because there are an infinite number does not mean they are equal. >> Your measure each time you pull the trigger in the quantum gun is >> (approximately) halved. >> >> >> ? >> >> Your relative measure on the continuations where you survive remains >> constant and equal to one. >> > > > I was considering only the continuations where you survive, (which > subjectively is one), but the proportion of the continuations where you > survive that are explained by non-traditional means (simulation argument, > dream of God, etc.) increases relative to the dwindling the fraction of > biologically surviving instances. > > When I spoke of one's measure decreasing, I was referring to the person's > objective measure in reality, which to me seems to decrease when one is > tested by a dangerous encounter. I am not suggesting that there was a 50% > chance you would "stop being you" when you pull the trigger, but that there > is an ever increasing chance you will take some strange paths to survive. > And this is because the measure of the biologically surviving copies, > relative to the non-biological surviving copies, decreases. > > > >> We cannot count the cul-de-sac reality (and that is why Bp & Dt can give >> a quantum measure). Some absolute measure does not make sense. >> >> > Does RSSA imply one does no harm to their measure (objective or > subjective) by spending a day in the the box with Schrodinger's cat? > > No, because there is no absolute measure to decrease to begin with. The thing is, doing dangerous thing *increase* likeliness to experience being crippled, that's what is more likely.
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