Do you mean which population do I want to join in order to have the greatest chance of leaving descendants?
By the way here is a link to the paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0624v2.pdf On 24 March 2014 19:57, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/23/2014 11:27 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 24 March 2014 17:48, chris peck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The only person in any doubt was you wasn't it Liz? >> > > Er, no, lots of people got the wrong end of the stick and argued about > it at length. I was one of the ones who said he probably meant ... whatever > it turned out he meant. (Maybe I just don't have enough maths background to > get the wrong end of the stick on this sort of thing.) > > > I wonder if people on the list are aware of Adrian Kent's proposed test of > MWI. Before you look at his paper on the link below, answer this question: > > By courtesy of genetic engineering and an oppressive Orwellian government, > you must choose a reproductive strategy for yourself and all your > descendants. You will become a member of either humans-a or humans-b. > Each generation, say 70yrs, all humans-a die and leave one progeny, so the > human-a population stays constant. But each generation the human-b > population will, in accordance with a 0.5 probability quantum event, either > go extinct, none have progeny, or they triple, each one dies leaving three > progeny. > Then the question is, which new subspecies do you want to join, human-a or > human-b? > > Kent's paper is arXiv:0905.0624v2. > > Brent > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
