Hi Brent.
Brent Meeker wrote:
I don't understand the point of this modification. The idea of QS was
to arrange that in all possible worlds in which I exist, I'm rich.
If it's just a matter of being rich in a few and not rich in the
rest, I don't need any QS.
Yes but you only want
This
is a reply to Eric Hawthorne and Tim May.
Eric Hawthorne wrote:
>George Levy wrote:
Conclusions:
All this involves really basic probability theory.
The first person perspective probability is identical to the probability
conditional to the person staying alive.
>But tha
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:22 PM, George Levy wrote:
OK. Let's consider the case of the guy dying of cancer and playing the
stock market simultaneously.. In real life, the hard part is to get
meaningful probability data. For the sake of the argument let's assume
the following scenari
George Levy wrote:
Conclusions:
All this involves really basic probability theory.
The first person perspective probability is identical to the
probability conditional to the person staying alive.
But that first-person probability is not objective, and not valid, and
not useful.
Consider thi
Tim May wrote:
From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Jan 9, 2003 1:22:32 PM US/Pacific
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quantum suicide without suicide
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 12:32 PM, George Levy wrote:
As you can see, suicide is not necessary. One could be on
From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Jan 9, 2003 1:22:32 PM US/Pacific
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quantum suicide without suicide
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 12:32 PM, George Levy wrote:
As you can see, suicide is not necessary. One could be on death row -
in other
Thanks Bruno, for your comments, I fully agree with you. Let me add a few
comments for Tim and Scerir
Tim May wrote:
Consider this thought experiment: Alice is facing her quantum mechanics exam
at Berkeley. She sees two main approaches to take. First, study hard and
try to answer all of th
Tim May wrote
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 10:58 AM, George Levy wrote:
In the original verision of Quantum Suicide (QS), as understood in
this list, the experimenter sets up a suicide machine that kills
him if the world does not conform to his wishes. Hence, in the
branching many-wor
[Tim May]
All indications are that there are virtually no worlds in which random
guessers do well.
Lev Vaidman wrote that we must care about all our 'successive'
worlds in proportion to their measures of existence [Behavior
Principle]. He does not agree to play the 'quantum Russian
roulette'
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 10:58 AM, George Levy wrote:
In the original verision of Quantum Suicide (QS), as understood in
this list, the experimenter sets up a suicide machine that kills him
if the world does not conform to his wishes. Hence, in the branching
many-worlds, his conscio
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