Re: valuable errors

1999-04-13 Thread Jacques M Mallah
On 13 Mar -1, Marchal wrote: Jacques M Mallah wrote: Yes, that's why I've enjoyed my discussions with Wei Dai. My problem is with what I see as the trivial errors that are so entrenched in many of the opinions. Could you be a little more explicit ? Could you give examples of

Causation, Indexical facts Self-sampling

1999-04-13 Thread Nick Bostrom
The Self-Sampling Assumption (SSA), the idea that you should reason as if you were a random sample form the set of all observers, underlies many of the discussions we have had on this list. About half a year ago I discovered some paradoxical consequences of this assumption. It seems to imply

Everett

1999-04-13 Thread Higgo James
I'm trying to locate the original Everett paper Everet, H, 1957, Rev. Mod. Phys 29, 454. Anyone know where I can get it online? James