Niclas Thisell wrote:
>How could the definition of measure be difficult with quantum mechanics?
>Obviously, we simply define the measure of a world (a point in
>infinite-dimensional Fock-space) to be the absolute square of the
>wave-function. In my opinion, the concept of splitting and merging on
In a message dated 12/05/1999 8:57:28 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> There is an obvious normalisation problem with the usual model of
> branching histories in MWI (I see from your signature you at least
> accept that!). Since the total number of histories (belongi
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
> > Given the measure distribution of observation-moments, as a
> > function on observables (such as Y1 and X),
> > p(Y1|X) = p(Y1 and X) / p(X)
> > Not so hard, was it?
> > [Note that here X was the observation of being Jack Mallah, and
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
> > [JM wrote] [&BTW I am getting tired of RS omitting the attribution]
>
> ^^^ Blame my email software. I almost always leave the .signatures in
> to make it obvious who I'm responding to.
Since
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
[JM wrote] [&BTW I am getting tired of RS omitting the attribution]
> > That's total BS.
> > I'll review, although I've said it so many times, how effective
> > probabilities work in the ASSA. You can take this as a definition of
> > ASSA, so y
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
> The measure of Jack Mallah is irrelevant to this situation. The
> probability of Jack Mallah seeing Joe Schmoe with a large age is
> proportional to Joe Schmoe's measure - because - Joe Schmoe is
> independent of Jack Mallah. However, Jack Mallah is c
>
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
> > > Your above comments make no sense to me. Perhaps you should
> > > attempt to clarify them. I will say that you seem to have missed the
> > > point of the Bayesian analysis. It is useful because the ASSA predicts
> > > that one is unlikel
Chris Maloney wrote:
>This harkens back to a thread I started some time ago about our universe
>being the one, or among the ones, that admit the most SASs. Clearly the
>number of observer-moments among the human race is vast, if you assume the
>MWI. Most people replied that they thought it was o
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Sent: 24 September 1999 23:04
Subject: Re: tautology
> I'm afraid that I'm late to the discussion. Would it be to late to ask
what
> the acronyms ASSA and RSSA stand for and how they are differentiated from
> one another?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---
> Andrew Lias
>
>
In a message dated 99-09-16 18:03:47 EDT, Jacques Mallah writes:
>> George Levy wrote
>> [a bunch of crap]
>>
>> Just as I predicted.
Thank you for the very thorough and constructive critique and for your
amazing ability to predict the future. Your comments represents as
significant a contri
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Gilles HENRI wrote:
> A 21:12 -0700 15/09/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit:
> >Closely tied to the self selection assumption is the Doomsday argument,
> >which says that we are probably about halfway along in the lifetime of
> >the human race, hence (if you count by observers or
In a message dated 99-09-13 16:05:02 EDT, Jacques Mallah writes:
> No, if you did that you would miss the boat. The boat that allows
>predictions of stuff like the observed laws of physics.
>> One way out for Jacques is to assume that humans are the only sentient
>> creatures in the whole un
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
[JM wrote]
> > Obviously you don't understand. With the ASSA, it is always
> > possible to find the conditional probability of an observation given a
> > suitable condition. Choosing a condition and asking a question about it
> > changes nothing a
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Russell Standish wrote:
> > > > > Then maybe I misunderstood you. A tautology is a term with redundant
> > > > > parts, ie it is equivalent to some subset of itself. I took your
> > > > > statement that "ASSA is a tautology" to me
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