Re: Predictions duplications

2001-10-12 Thread juergen
In reply to Russell Standish and Juho Pennanen I'd just like to emphasize the main point, which is really trivial: by definition, a uniform measure on the possible futures makes all future beginnings of a given size equally likely. Then regular futures clearly are not any more likely than the

Re: Predictions duplications

2001-10-12 Thread hal
Juergen writes: Some seem to think that the weak anthropic principle explains the regularity. The argument goes like this: Let there be a uniform measure on all universe histories, represented as bitstrings. Now take the tiny subset of histories in which you appear. Although the measure of