>> If you repeated the cloning experiment from Figure 8.3 many times and wrote >> down your room number each time, you'd in almost all cases find that the >> sequence of zeros and ones you'd written looked random, with zeros occurring >> about 50% of the time.
There's something strikes me as very strange about this idea. Tegmark's method is just a means of writing down binary sequences. Being strict, already with binary sequences just 4 digits long, only 37.5% of those contain half zeros. This drops the longer the sequences get. So, with sequences 6 digits long, only 31.25% contain half zeros. With sequences 8 digits long only 27% and with 16 digits only about 19%. If his experiment continued for a year, (365 digits) many people would find that either room 1 or room 0 was dominating strongly. For these people a change in room would seem very odd, a glitch in the matrix that wouldn't be of any great concern vis a vis prediction once 'normality' kicked back in the following night. For others, a change in room would occur at regular intervals and would seem very predictable. There would be the guy who changed room every night. There would be all the guys whose room changed every night except for the one time when it stayed the same. A little glitch is all. In truth, the longer you continued the game and the more people got involved the less chance a person would have of finding room assignment random at all. There would be increasingly few people willing to bet 50/50 on a particular room assignment. Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 17:13:23 +1300 Subject: Re: Tegmark and UDA step 3 From: lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com "Hello, dear, looking for a bit of multi-sense realism?" On 2 March 2014 16:35, <ghib...@gmail.com> wrote: heh heh heh I love this place. It's like walking through an eccentric street market where traders call out their wares "GETCHYOUR P-TIME 2 for 1 logico-computational really real structure today only" "Assuming comp only, that's right comp only. Theology but done like science. Madam you are ugly but I will be sober in the morning. You there, you reek of not-comp, get lost. Ah sir, did you like the dreams? Same again?" "GETCHOR P-TIME..,." -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.