Hi Russell,
From: Russell Standish Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:32 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Against the Doomsday hypothesis On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:35:10AM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Is not the SSA “the idea that you should reason as if you were a random sample form the set of all observers" . Yes. > I do seem to be rehashing some of Mallah’s argument (http://www.higgo.com/qti/Mallah.htm ) but even in your reply to Mallah you use the notion of “mean human lifetime”. How is this a known quantity unless one takes an atemporal “block universe” stance and excludes possible life extension technologies, etc. Exactly what does “the set of all observers” mean otherwise? It probably wouldn't matter much to the argument if we do include all possible life extension technologies, provided the mean human lifetime was finite, and not too different to what we observe. Of course that places interesting constraints on the form of life extension technologies, that would be of interest to the transhumanists. > There is some interesting discussion over at > http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/indexical-information-destructive-brain-copying-revisited > Indeed. We had quite a bit of discussion on indexical arguments on the everything list as well. I'm afraid its all a bit much for me to digest in one gulp, though... Nothing of value happens easily or quickly. Onward! Stephen > Onward! > > Stephen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
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