On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
An uploaded mind is running within a computer process. If the mind presses > a button inside its virtual environment, the process will fork and if > within the simulation of the child process a light within the virtual > environment will flash blue, while in the parent process it will flash red. > The uploaded mind has pushed the button many times, and each time witnessed > either a blue flash or red flash, seemingly at random and with a seemingly > equal probability of witnessing either color. Within the simulation there > is also a casino which allows betting on which color will flash after the > button is pressed. > > The question is,* If the game cost $1 to play, and if it was your mind > that was uploaded into this computer process what would the minimum pay out > have to be for you to play, and what would your betting strategy be?* > Assuming that just I am duplicated (and not my wallet) and assuming the winning prize is $2 I'd bet on red and I'd make a dollar every time I press the button. Yes the child won't win $2 but he didn't pay $1 for the privilege of pushing the button either so he lost nothing. However the casino owner is heading for bankruptcy. OK I hear you say, what if your wallet was duplicated too? Then the wallet the copy inherits will be $1 lighter but unlike the original will not win $2 so he's out $1. All that is true but it has nothing to do with me because my exact copy is no longer exact, we've had different experiences and thus have diverged; I saw a red light and won the bet but that other fellow saw a blue light and lost the bet. John K Clark -- 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.
