On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Let me explain the bet more clearly. I will be duplicated tomorrow in > Moscow and Washington. I have $1 in my pocket, and this will be duplicated > with me. (Assume this is legal provided that the money is duplicated along > with the owner). The bet I make is thatafter the duplication, I will pay > you $1 and you (who will not be duplicated) will pay me $2 if I am in > Washington, > > and nothing if I am in Moscow. > > The "I" here, to spell it out in case you are confused, is anyone who > remembers being me and making the bet. > Let's follow the money , assuming "me" also means "anyone who remembers being me and making the bet" then Mr. Me must pay John Clark $2 and John Clark must pay Mr. Me $2. We can now calculate the net result of all this with 100% certainty, John Clark ended up with exactly the same amount of money in his pocket at the end of the day that he had at the beginning, but Mr. Me ended up with twice as much money in his pockets due to the fact that the machine can not only duplicate people it can duplicate dollar bills too. If John Clark were smart he'd refuse to be a collaborator in this counterfeiting operation unless he got a bigger slice of the action. > > This is a fair game, > It's not a game because skill is not involved and it's not a bet because probability is not involved. All that happens is that dollar bills are passed around in a circle and at the end of it absolutely nothing has changed for John Clark but Mr. Me has twice as much money. All this can be predicted with 100% certainty and we can also predict that It's all a bit silly. I'll be dammed if I can find any philosophical significance in it. 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 [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.
