Since we're talking about electrons or photons, everything should be free, since one is "liberated" from the heavy realm of neutrons and protons. Maybe computing cycles is the common currency. The Jeff Bezos upload has more computing cycles than I because he is far richer. Maybe this is how "heaven" works as well?
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jul 28, 2015 4:44 pm Subject: Re: A riddle for John Clark On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:33 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Forget about giving the correct prediction, a prediction can't even be described by any means. Bruno thinks we can repeat the experiment and compile statistics from it and then compare the number obtained from experiment with the theoretical prediction, but who exactly was the prediction about? If the prediction was about Jason Resch one number is obtained, If the prediction is about the man currently experiencing Helsinki a different number is obtained, If the prediction was about the Moscow Man a third number is obtained, If the prediction was about the Washington Man yet another number is obtained, and if the prediction was about "you" no number at all is obtained because Bruno doesn't know how to give a consistent meaning to the personal pronoun "you". > If I understand what you say above, your position is that the question has no answer? My position is that there can't be an answer if there is no question. What EXACTLY is the question? An uploaded mind is running within a computer process. If the mind presses a button inside its virtual environment, the process will fork and if within the simulation of the child process a light within the virtual environment will flash blue, while in the parent process it will flash red. The uploaded mind has pushed the button many times, and each time witnessed either a blue flash or red flash, seemingly at random and with a seemingly equal probability of witnessing either color. Within the simulation there is also a casino which allows betting on which color will flash after the button is pressed. The question is, If the game cost $1 to play, and if it was your mind that was uploaded into this computer process what would the minimum pay out have to be for you to play, and what would your betting strategy be? Jason -- 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.
