On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Hi Russell, > > > > Ah! I don't quite grok it completely, but thank you for this example. We > > had to assume an already existing measure on the Reals. Where does that > > come from? > > > > The standard measure on the reals is based on the observation that we > expect the set of real numbers starting with 0.110... to have the same > measure as those starting with 0.111... That would be a reasonable > default assumption for most purposes. The measure obtained by compression of the reals in binary form is close to the quantum mechanic measure, but not exact. In fact, the quantum measure varies with the scenario, whereas the measure of the reals is invariant. Richard > > We get a rather similar measure induced on UD* by observing the first > person probability for observing W or M (in the WM duplication > scenario) is 0.5. The late > > Cheers > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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.
