2014-06-19 21:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > No the I before measuring the spin, is as clear as the I pushing the >> button, no confusion... When I ask that I what is the probability he'll see >> spin up *UNDER MWI WHERE YOU'LL BE DUPLICATED DOING SUCH EXPERIMENT*, that >> I will answer 0.5 >> > > And in the MWI how will YOU know if the 0.5 prediction was correct? > And in the comp experiment how will YOU know if the 0.5 prediction was correct?
YOU repeat the exeperiment many times and you write the result in a diary, and almost all YOU will arrive at the correct frequency *exactly* like almost all YOU in MWI wil arrive at 0.5. > YOU repeat the experiment many times, YOU write down the results and then > YOU see if about half the time it was spin up and about half spin down. > Pronouns cause no problem. > > But in Bruno's thought experiment how is it determined if the > probabilistic prediction about which city YOU saw was correct or not, which > YOU should I ask? > The same you as always *ALL OF THEM* like in MWI. > Should I write down Moscow or Washington? If YOU say both then YOU saw > Washington and Moscow and the probability is 1.0, if you say ask neither > then YOU didn't see Washington AND YOU didn't see Moscow and the > probability is 0.0, in neither case is it 0.5. > > John K Clark > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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.
