Re: Nick Bostrom's new book

2002-10-01 Thread Nick Bostrom
Wei Dai wrote (six weeks ago!): >I don't know why Nick hasn't told us about his new book. I just found out >about it on his web site: Obviously, the lesson is that one must check my website at least twice daily just in case some world-changing event is being announced ;-) >Anthropic Bias: Obs

Re: Many Fermis Interpretation Paradox -- So why aren't they here?

2002-10-01 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 06:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > At 12:26 -0700 30/09/2002, Tim May wrote: >> If the alternate universes implied by the mainstream MWI (as opposed >> to variants like consistent histories) are "actual" in some sense, >> with even the slightest chance of communi

Re: From Hardegree to Chellas for Joyce + Restall

2002-10-01 Thread jamikes
>On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:46:29PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> I would say the difference between animals and humans is that humans >> make drawings on the walls ..., and generally doesn't take their body >> as a limitation of their memory. I certainly enjoyed the beauty of this idea. Than

Re: Many Fermis Interpretation Paradox -- So why aren't they here?

2002-10-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 12:26 -0700 30/09/2002, Tim May wrote: >If the alternate universes implied by the mainstream MWI (as opposed >to variants like consistent histories) are "actual" in some sense, >with even the slightest chance of communication between universes, >then why have we not seen solid evidence of su

Re: Tegmark's TOE & Cantor's Absolute Infinity

2002-10-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 19:08 -0400 29/09/2002, Wei Dai wrote: >On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:46:29PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> I would say the difference between animals and humans is that humans >> make drawings on the walls ..., and generally doesn't take their body >> as a limitation of their memory. > >It's

Re: From Hardegree to Chellas for Joyce + Restall

2002-10-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 19:05 -0400 29/09/2002, Wei Dai wrote: >On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:58:57PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> Originally the passage from the first person to the first person plural was >> done in reaction to my ex-boss wanting an explanation of the comp >> indeterminacy in term of betting games