On 9 June 2014 16:02, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perhaps Alice gets future A with probability 0.9 and future B with
>
p=0.1, and Bob vice versa.
>

Sorry to be obtuse but I can't see how this works. Please could you spell
it out as I tried to do, e.g. by assuming there are 10 future branches,
both containing a copy of Alice and Bob. How does Alice get A with 0.9,
etc? It doesn't appear to add up, but I may be missing something...

>
> Then there would be no zombies. But then the influence on subjective
> probabilities is no longer infallible.
>
> You pays your money, and you takes your choices :).
>
> Cheers
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