On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 at 6:07 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> In the next few moments in the multiverse multiple parallel copies of me >> will continue writing this email >> > > If they are all identical and all writing the exact same email then > subjectively there are not multiple copies, there is only one. > > In many worlds things only split when something changes. > > > >> If you choose (ii) there would be one happy John Clark but 1000 unhappy >> ones, kicking themselves for making a stupid decision. > > > If all 1000 are identical then subjectively there is only one, so there > is one happy and one unhappy John Clark, exactly the same would result from > the other choice so the decision is unimportant. > They differentiate as soon as they are created. 1000 of them will regret the decision they remember making prior to duplication, so faced with the same situation again they would likely decide differently. Eventually, people using these duplicators will behave as if they expect to randomly end up in one place with a probability weighted for the number of copies. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
