On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:04:20PM -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
Do you think it would come out differently with a universal distribution?
There are an infinite number of universal distributions. Some of them
assign greater probability to even integers, some of them assign greater
probability to
These books have been mentioned on the list before, but I'm recommending
them again because a lot of new members have joined since we last talked
about them. To motivate you to read these books, I've given some questions
that each book helps answer or provide the necessary background knowledge
to
I have to say that I sympathize with Caesar, but my position is slightly
different. I think there is a possibility that that objective morality
does exist, but we're simply too stupid to realize what it is. Therefore
we should try to improve our intelligence, through intelligence
amplication, or
There are statements of fact, statements of logic (also called analytic or a
priori), and statements of value. Statements of fact are verified or
falsified empirically. Statements of logic include mathematical theorems and
are verified or falsified by following the rules of logic or
Dear Bruno,
Interleaving.
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Dear Stephen,
At 12:39 21/01/04
The notion of complex-valued or even quaternionic or octonionic
probabilities has been considered; see
http://physics.bu.edu/~youssef/quantum/quantum_refs.html
for some pointers into the literature.
-- Ben Goertzel
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Can you explain briefly why the choice of measure is subjective? I
haven't read any of the
books you mentioned (will try to get to them) but am familiar with
computability theory
and decision theory.
In my favourite interpretation of the multiverse, as a very long
(possibly lengthening)
I find some inconsistencies in your post:
qubitstring containing all of the possible information-states implied in
such a long bitstring,...
possible, of course, to OUR knowledge (imagination). Anthropomorph
thinking about the MW.
Let Ui be an internal-time-ordered set of information-states
John M wrote:
I find some inconsistencies in your post:
qubitstring containing all of the possible information-states implied in
such a long bitstring,...
possible, of course, to OUR knowledge (imagination). Anthropomorph
thinking about the MW.
I'm really talking
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:01:42AM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
If I stop with (a) above, I am simply
saying that this is how I feel about suffering, and this feeling is not
contingent on the state of affairs in any actual or possible world [there, I
got it in!].
(a) as stated is ill
Morality, ethics, virtue, etc. imply a struggle for control -- at least within
oneself, but often more widely. If morality had a set of obvious axioms, such as to
lead to firm reliable answers to all moral questions in practice, it would be
know-how, not morality. For everything there is a
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:21:40PM -0800, Eric Hawthorne wrote:
Can you explain briefly why the choice of measure is subjective? I
haven't read any of the
books you mentioned (will try to get to them) but am familiar with
computability theory
and decision theory.
Since you do not mention
Wei Dai wrote:
Now suppose that two people, Alice and Bob, somehow agree that a measure M
is the objectively correct measure, but Bob insists on using measure M' in
making decisions. He says So what if universe A has a bigger measure than
universe B according to M? I just care more about what
Wei Dai wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:21:40PM -0800, Eric Hawthorne wrote:
Can you explain briefly why the choice of measure is subjective? I
haven't read any of the
books you mentioned (will try to get to them) but am familiar with
computability theory
and decision
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