On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 04:39:14PM +1200, LizR wrote: > On 10 June 2014 14:52, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > On 6/9/2014 6:48 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > > > >> OK - there are 2 future branches, A and B, each of which have equal > >> objective probability of occurring. Ie the Born rule says each has a > >> probability of 0.5. > >> > >> However, perhaps _subjectively_, Alice sees branch A with probability > >> 0.9 and branch B with probability 0.1, and Bob sees branch A with > >> probability 0.1 and branch B with probability 0.9. > >> > > > > If there are only two branches then Alice see each with probability 1.0. > > From a bird's eye view you can renormalize this and call it 0.5. But I > > don't see any way to even assign meaning to 0.1 or 0.9 when the branch > > probabilities are 0.5. > > > > Me neither. Glad we agree on something :-) > > Over to you, Russell. What are we missing? >
The probabilities are those of entering branch A or B from the unbranched state the precedes them. You're making an assumption that this measure is proportional to the cardinality of those branches. I'm making no such assumption. That's all. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/d/optout.
