On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> While the outcome is certain for you, it is not certain for me. >>> >> >> That's because the meaning of the personal pronoun "me" will always be >> uncertain in a world that contains "me" duplicating machines. >> >> > > And this uncertainty constitutes the irreducible indeterminacy. > It signifies nothing more profound than poor writing and silly pronoun usage. > > After the duplication there will be two copies, one with $2 and the other > with nothing. Neither of them has the same amount of money as before. > OK. So what? >> >> As so often happens in this thread nobody can say if the above is true >> or not because nobody knows who Mr. I is. >> >> > > > > Mr I is the person who remembers going into the duplicator, > Then Mr.I will see *2* cities. QED >> > and there are two of them. Mr I has gone through this many times and > knows that half the time he ends up in Washington with $2 and half the time > in Moscow with no money, hence next time he enters the duplicator he > believes he has s 1/2 chance of doubling his money or losing it. You tell > him he is not even wrong, I would never tell him that after he went through the duplicator, but I would tell him that before. > >> >> A game involves skill and gambling involves probability and this >> pointless procedure involves neither. >> >> > > > > Games can be games of chance rather than skill. > But chance is not involved, everything is 100% predicable and it's not even difficult. 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.
