On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 10 Jun 2014, at 06:51, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 04:39:14PM +1200, LizR wrote: >> >>> On 10 June 2014 14:52, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 6/9/2014 6:48 PM, Russell Standish wrote: >>>> >>>> OK - there are 2 future branches, A and B, each of which have equal >>>>> objective probability of occurring. Ie the Born rule says each has a >>>>> probability of 0.5. >>>>> >>>>> However, perhaps _subjectively_, Alice sees branch A with probability >>>>> 0.9 and branch B with probability 0.1, and Bob sees branch A with >>>>> probability 0.1 and branch B with probability 0.9. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> If there are only two branches then Alice see each with probability 1.0. >>>> From a bird's eye view you can renormalize this and call it 0.5. But I >>>> don't see any way to even assign meaning to 0.1 or 0.9 when the branch >>>> probabilities are 0.5. >>>> >>>> >>> Me neither. Glad we agree on something :-) >>> >>> Over to you, Russell. What are we missing? >>> >>> >> The probabilities are those of entering branch A or B from the >> unbranched state the precedes them. >> >> You're making an assumption that this measure is proportional to the >> cardinality of those branches. I'm making no such assumption. That's all. >> > > But then your first person experience will depart from the gaussian one, > that we can observe, in the 3p view of the many 1-views which are defined > by the testimony of the experiences in the observable many diaries. In the > iterated WM duplication, you will get a majority of doppelgangers > criticizing your "selection" as arbitrary. > > Of course this is assuming we already inherit the normality which must > exist with comp, and seems to exist technically, and also empirically, of > course, ... well I hope. > I think I see what is meant, but can you elaborate on why "normality must exist with comp/technically"? PGC > > Bruno > > > > > >> -- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ---------------- >> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> Principal, High Performance Coders >> Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] >> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> >> Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret >> (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ---------------- >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > > -- > 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.
