Re: tautology

1999-12-06 Thread GSLevy
In a message dated 12/05/1999 8:57:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is an obvious normalisation problem with the usual model of branching histories in MWI (I see from your signature you at least accept that!). Since the total number of histories (belonging

Re: tautology

1999-11-04 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Russell Standish wrote: [JM wrote] [BTW I am getting tired of RS omitting the attribution] ^^^ Blame my email software. I almost always leave the .signatures in to make it obvious who I'm responding to. Since your

Re: tautology

1999-10-25 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Russell Standish wrote: The measure of Jack Mallah is irrelevant to this situation. The probability of Jack Mallah seeing Joe Schmoe with a large age is proportional to Joe Schmoe's measure - because - Joe Schmoe is independent of Jack Mallah. However, Jack Mallah is

Re: tautology

1999-10-08 Thread Marchal
Chris Maloney wrote: This harkens back to a thread I started some time ago about our universe being the one, or among the ones, that admit the most SASs. Clearly the number of observer-moments among the human race is vast, if you assume the MWI. Most people replied that they thought it was of

Re: tautology

1999-09-15 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Russell Standish wrote: [JM wrote] Obviously you don't understand. With the ASSA, it is always possible to find the conditional probability of an observation given a suitable condition. Choosing a condition and asking a question about it changes nothing about

Re: tautology

1999-09-06 Thread Jacques M. Mallah
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Russell Standish wrote: Then maybe I misunderstood you. A tautology is a term with redundant parts, ie it is equivalent to some subset of itself. I took your statement that ASSA is a tautology to mean that ASSA is