On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> *> This is to assume that in Everett's picture, each trial is effectively >> a Bernoulli trial, with a probability of success p. This is not the case. >> Since every outcome occurs on every Evettian trial, the process cannot be >> seen as a Bernoulli trial.* >> > > *You're making an implicit assumption that is usually harmless but not > when you're talking about the nature of quantum reality. You are forgetting > that a Bernoulli trial is not a Bernoulli trial unless the Bernoulli trial > has been OBSERVED. And every observer observes that only two outcomes are > possible, the coin lands heads or the coin lands tails. And after many > trials all the observers in the Multiverse deduce that the outcome of one > trial does not influence the outcome of another trial. And all the > observers in the Multiverse also deduce that the probability of heads and > the probability of tails remains the same for every trial. And that is > exactly what is required for something to be a Bernoulli trial.* > Which probability textbook did you get that out of? Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLSXg%3DpZ6U6ZGiYUuZAM8CaL2jKuBZ%3DyLM6F1YXQBG1ddw%40mail.gmail.com.
