I'm not sure I follow. Tegmark said "If you repeated the cloning experiment from Figure 8.3 many times and wrote down your room number each time, you'd in almost all cases find that the sequence of zeros and ones you'd written looked random, with zeros occurring about 50% of the time."
That seems to me to be correct. If you do the experiment 4 times you get the sequences I typed out before, except I seem to have accidentally doubled up! The correct sequences should read: *0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001 1010 1011 1100 1101 1110 1111* Depending on how you decide something looks random, I'd say quite a few of those sequences do. And 0s do occur 50% of the time overall, for sure. I guess the sloppy phrasing is he implies 0s happen half the time in most sequences? I don't know if that is true (it's true for 6 of the 16 sequences above) or if it becomes more true (or almost true) with longer sequences. Maybe a mathematician can enlighten me? I admit Max seems a little slapdash in how he phrases things in the chapters I've read so far, presumably because he's trying to make his subject matter seem more accessible. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
