Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Wei Dai
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:00:07PM +0100, Marchal Bruno wrote: > Have you read the "revisited" paper by Wallace on Everett/decision > theory? Quite interesting imo, and relevant for some discussion, > about MWI and decision theory we have had on this list. > > http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/docum

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Wei, Two ideas would seem to mute this strange thought. 1) The no-cloning theorem, iff the world follows QM and not just classical physics. 2) van Fraassen's Reflection Principle seems to ignore the possibility that probabilities and their distributions are given ab inition and that the