--- On Mon, 6/23/08, Kaj Sotala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) Perform the experiment several times. If, on any of the trials, > copies are created, then have all of them partake in the next trial as > well, flipping a new coin and possibly being duplicated again (and > quickly leading to an exponentially increasing number of copies). > Carry out enough trials to eliminate the effect of random chance. > Since every agent is flipping a fair coin each time, by the time you > finish running the trials, all of them will remember seeing a roughly > equal amount of heads and tails. Knowing this, a rational agent should > anticipate this result, and not a 99% ratio.
That is my meaning. But you can run a simulation yourself. The agents that see heads get copied, so you have more agents remembering heads than remembering tails. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
