On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 10:44:37AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
>
>
> That is, in fact, false. It does not generate the same strings as flipping a
> coin in single world. Sure, each of the strings in Everett could have been
> obtained from coin flips -- but then the probability of a sequence of 10,000
> heads is very low, whereas in many-worlds you are guaranteed that one observer
> will obtain this sequence. There is a profound difference between the two
> cases.
You have made this statement multiple times, and it appears to be at
the heart of our disagreement. I don't see what the profound
difference is.
If I select a subset from the set of all strings of length N, for example all
strings with exactly N/3 1s, then I get a quite specific value for the
proportion of the whole that match it:
/ N \
| | 2^{-N} = p.
\N/3/
Now this number p will also equal the probability of seeing exactly
N/3 coins land head up when N coins are tossed.
What is the profound difference?
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