Here's my response to the rest of your post. I think you're right that
with two identical deterministic computations, there is no
need to apply game theory. I think in that case you should consider
yourself to be both of them. It would not work to think there's 50% chance
you're one and 50%
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 06:58:50PM -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
I am confused about the relation of S to A and B. Did S go into a
copying machine and get two copies, A and B made, in addition to S?
And now A and B are deciding what S will win?
Yes, and yes.
Why should they care? If S gets a
Wei wrote:
Here's a simplified thought experiment that illustrates the issue. Two
copies of the subject S, A and B, are asked to choose option 1 or option
2. If A chooses 1, S wins a TV (TV), otherise S wins a worse TV (TV2). If
B chooses 1, S wins a stereo, otherwise S wins TV. S prefers
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:49:04PM -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
OK, I understand now that the utilities below are the utilities for A
and B when S gets the various items. So U(TV) is the utility for A for
S to get a TV, which is the same as the utility for B since they are
identical copies.
Wei writes:
Here's a simplified thought experiment that illustrates the issue. Two
copies of the subject S, A and B, are asked to choose option 1 or option
2. If A chooses 1, S wins a TV (TV), otherise S wins a worse TV (TV2). If
B chooses 1, S wins a stereo, otherwise S wins TV. S prefers
Hi Wei Dai,
About books. Concerning the provability logics I always mentionned
the Boolos 1993 (or even his lovely lighter Boolos 1979), but I would
like to mention also the book Self-reference and modal logic by
Smorynski. The only problem is its very little caracters; I should go
to the
were to compete with his copies you would be at a disadvantage.
P.S. I retract my claim that the self-sampling assumption is incorrect. I
think I was just using it incorrectly. More on this in another post.
After writing the following response, I realized that my argument against
the self sampling assumption doesn't really depend on E1 and E2 being
experiences. They can be any kind of events. Suppose they're prizes that
the copies can win for the original. E1 is a TV and E2 is a stereo. You'd
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