2014-06-19 21:55 GMT+02:00 John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
