RE: many worlds theory of immortality

2005-04-20 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Jesse Mazer wrote: [Quoting Stathis:] However, let us agree that the scenario you describe occurs in a non-negligible proportion of MW branches in which sentient life survives into the indefinite future, and return to Nick Prince's original question which spawned this thread. How will you ensure

RE: many worlds theory of immortality

2005-04-20 Thread Jesse Mazer
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Jesse Mazer writes: [Stathis] There are two separate probabilities to consider here. One is the probability (3/4, as you show) that civilization will never break down if implemented on a computer with behaviour as specified above. The other is the probability that the

RE: many worlds theory of immortality

2005-04-20 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Jesse Mazer writes: [Stathis] There are two separate probabilities to consider here. One is the probability (3/4, as you show) that civilization will never break down if implemented on a computer with behaviour as specified above. The other is the probability that the actual hardware will work a