>From Wei Dai, Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:00:23:
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Sentient beings can follow the same decision procedure used by the oracle.
Suppose you are faced with a bet involving a tossed coin. There is no need
to consider probabilistic questions like "what is the probability that the
coin landed heads?" which w
Dear Bruno:
OK - I will try your approach.
At first I had felt that one could not mount much of a disagreement over
whether or not a given word could be found in the archive.
However, I now think it better to bite the bullet and go directly to a list
of questions.
Given the nature of the lis
This time I'll annotate your entire message to demonstrate how many
things I tend to find unclear in your texts.
> From: Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Juergen wrote (among things):
>
> >But how to answer an ill-posed question? You promise that "time and
> >space will disappear at the end of
>From: Wei Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The selection of the proper reference class is a serious problem for
>anthropic reasoning.
Yes, though there have been suggestions about it.
>But perhaps anthropic reasoning is not necessary to
>take advantage of a theory of everything.
>Consider how an no
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