Re: my current position (was: AUDA)

2002-01-16 Thread Wei Dai
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:24:13PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > I don't understand "reason about your compassion". The point is that > you have a feeling about a possible future you imagine and so you take > action to avoid that future. What I mean is that "future" should be the causal future of

Re: Kiln People

2002-01-16 Thread Wei Dai
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:07:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another possibility is that mathematics says that there is really only > one measure function, the universal measure, for all but an insignificant > fraction of worlds. That is, all measure functions are arbitrarily > c

Little presentation

2002-01-16 Thread Matthieu Walraet
Hi, Instead of replying too quickly to a mail, maybe I should introduce myself before. I'm a 28 years old network software engineer. I have exchanged some mails with Bruno Marchal quite a long time ago, after an article in "Pour la Science" (french edition of "Scientific American".) I also h

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0201092

2002-01-16 Thread Saibal Mitra
High Energy Physics - Theory, abstracthep-th/0201092 From: Stephen Blaha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:57:12 GMT (634kb) A Quantum Computer Foundation for the Standard Model and SuperString Theories Authors: Stephen BlahaComments: 78 pages, PDF We show the Standard Model an

Re: Finite time and infinite space

2002-01-16 Thread Russell Standish
I suspect that the answer to this lies in the concept of logical depth, introduced by Charlie Bennett. The universe needs to be simple, in a Kolmogorov sense, in order to get a high measure in the ensemble of all descriptions. However, the flip side is that in order to generate intelligent observe