Dear Russel
Do you have any comment to this comment by Deutsch on another list about
these matters?
Regards
Lennart
- Original Message -
From: David Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: The Turing Principle and the SSA
On
David Deutsch wrote about the Self Selection Assumption, on the
Fabric-of-Reality list:
One problem with both of these is that there is no preferred meaning to
sampling *randomly* from an infinite set, except in certain very
special cases.
A discrete infinity of copies of me is not one of
I unsubscribed for the FOR list about 6 months ago, as I found I could
no longer put up with the dross on that list (not that DD is dross, of
course!).
I must admit, I'm not entirely sure what problem DD is alluding to
here. In order to apply the SSA requires a measure on the reference
class.
I think a related point is touched on in my paper Complexity and
Emergence, as in Why Occam's razor. In both of these cases, one is
selecting from an infinite discrete set (of descriptions), which have
a uniform measure associated with them.
The answer you get, is the the probability of selection
4 matches
Mail list logo
