Re: Does provability matter?

2001-12-19 Thread Juergen Schmidhuber
Wei Dai wrote: I don't understand how you can believe that the probability of more dominant priors is zero. That implies if I offered you a bet of $1 versus your entire net worth that large scale quantum computation will in fact work, you'd take that bet. Would you really? Your dollar

Re: Variations in measure

2001-12-19 Thread hal
Wei writes: If you think about it more, I think you'll realize that the greater number of observer-moments observing flying rabbits or similar happenings can't make up for the much smaller measure of each such observer-moment. Unfortunately right now I can't find a way to easily articulate

Re: Variations in measure

2001-12-19 Thread Russell Standish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wei writes: If by flying-rabbit you mean any deviation from simplicity, then I agree with you. Notice that our own universe is full of quantum randomness, but we don't see any pattern to the randomness. Similarly, an observer in a Conway's life universe may