On 26 Sep., 14:39, "Wei Dai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ASSA implies that just before you answer, you should think that you have > 0.91 probability of being in the universe with "0" up. Does that mean you > should guess "yes"? Well, I wouldn't. If I was in that situation, I'd think > "If I answer 'no' my survivors are financially supported in 9 times as many > universes as if I answer 'yes', so I should answer 'no'." How many copies of > me exist in each universe doesn't matter, since it doesn't affect the > outcome that I'm interested in. > > Notice that in this thought experiment my reasoning mentions nothing about > probabilities. I'm not interested in "my" measure, but in the measures > of the outcomes that I care about.
I do agree with you, Wei. Sometimes, it's not useful to consider the expectation for your next observer moment---in particular, if you are interested in what happens to other people (thus in the observer moments they must expect for themselves). As I pointed out in my recent message "A question concerning the ASSA/RSSA debate", an absolute measure over observer moments isn't necessary. Every specific problem we are concerned with leads to a specific measure over observer moments. In this context, I would refer the ideas of the ASSA/ RSSA to the problem "What will I experience next?" This is a problem we are very often concerned with (for example if we perform an observation or a measurement, also leading to the Born rule). But it's not the only problem we might be interested in! So, this new perspective can be seen as a generalization of the ASSA/RSSA. In our rational decisions, we can include other aspects (e.g. other people) than ourselves. Rationality is not restricted to self-sampling. We could call this 'general rationality'. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---