On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 9/6/2015 4:59 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
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> On 9/6/2015 4:38 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
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> You may not be certain, but you know what the possibilities are, and I
> would argue, what the probabilites are as well.
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> Knowing possibilities isn't enough.  Probability requires a measure. Of
> course you're free to assume one or intuit one or guess one...but that
> doesn't connect to the mechanics of the world.
>

I'm not trying to necessarily connect to the mechanics of the world, but to
show a another way that first person indeterminancy can arise in a fully
deterministic setting with full information of the protocol, even without
physical duplication of the person.

Jason


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> Brent
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> What would you consider to be the minimum fair pay out X if you had to pay
> $1 on each of the days, and would be awarded $X if you guessed correctly
> which day it was?
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> Jason
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> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:17 PM, John Mikes < <[email protected]>
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Q #3 is irrelevant, after Q #2.
>> The answer is "I DUNNO" unless you detect indications for a better one.
>> JM
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>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Jason Resch < <[email protected]>
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>>> You will undergo the following experiment:
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>>> 1. During the weekend you will be put to sleep with a drug and not be
>>> woken up until Monday.
>>> 2. On monday you will be woken up and asked what day it is. *How do you
>>> answer?*
>>> 3. You are then given a drug to put you to sleep again and also given a
>>> drug that induces amnesia of being woken up at all on Monday.
>>> 4. You are woken up on Tuesday, and asked what day it is. *How do you
>>> answer?*
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>>> *If asked to ascribe a probability to it being Monday when you are woken
>>> up, how do you answer on either of the days you are awoken?*
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> That seems to be a purely subjective "probability".   It's like saying,
> "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10.  What's the probability it's
> 5?"   I'm not sure you can get to Born's rule from there.
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> Brent
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>>> (I am particularly interested in John Clark's answer to the final
>>> question)
>>>
>>> Jason
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