The whole point here is that it's supposed to work despite the people involved remaining alive. With quantum suicide you can see the results by counting the branches in which various outcomes occur. In this scenario, you can't (which is why it's so much harder, at least for me, to get my head around).
On 11 June 2014 15:01, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 06:12:40PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > > On 6/10/2014 5:22 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > > >In answer to Bruno's question, indeed the ability to influence one's > > >subjective probability in this was will lead to a departure from > > >normality, one that is not visible objectively to any third party. In > > >short, the reality you inhabit will increasingly become "magical", > > >like a white rabbit or Harry Potter universe. > > > > Or like Max Tegmark surviving every suicide attempt with his quantum > machine gun. > > > > Not unlike that indeed, except that committing suicide may not even be > necessary. > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > -- 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.
