Re: on formally describable universes and measures

2001-03-01 Thread Jacques Mallah
>From: Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Jacques Mallah wrote: > >I really don't know what you mean by "concrete". >Math is math, but is physic math? By a concrete UD I was meaning a real >actual one, like the one I have implemented on a macintosh SE/30, and >which has been running during two weeks in

Re: A FAQ document proposal for this list

2001-03-01 Thread Hal Ruhl
Dear Bruno: Thank you for your comments. Yes I know there are more key words to include, and some to remove as well, etc. etc.. Any comments are welcome. I hope to have the next reasonable draft improvement available by Monday. It will be a slow process. To avoid clutter in the archive, f

Re: A FAQ document proposal for this list

2001-03-01 Thread Marchal
Hello Hal Ruhl About your list of questions you are missing some important keywords, it seems to me. You miss Russell Standish's "occam", George Levy's "plenitude", Jacques Mallah's "implementation", Higgo's "buddha", my own "phi/psy reversal", etc. The introductory dialog by Wei Dai and Hal

Re: another anthropic reasoning paradox

2001-03-01 Thread Marchal
Wei Dai wrote: >Consider the following thought experiment. > >Two volunteers who don't know each other, Alice and Bob, are given >temporary amnesia and placed in identical virtual environments. They are >then both presented with three buttons and told the following: > >If you push 1, you will lo

Re: another anthropic reasoning

2001-03-01 Thread Jacques Mallah
>From: Wei Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Consider the following thought experiment. > >Two volunteers who don't know each other, Alice and Bob, are given >temporary amnesia and placed in identical virtual environments. They are >then both presented with three buttons and told the following: > >If you