Tim May wrote
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 10:58 AM, George Levy wrote:
In the original verision of Quantum Suicide (QS), as understood in
this list, the experimenter sets up a suicide machine that kills
him if the world does not conform to his wishes. Hence, in the
branching many-wor
At 16:07 -0800 8/01/2003, Hal Finney wrote:
The interesting aspect from this list's perspective is how to regard
infinite-time cosmologies. Does it make sense to imagine a universe
which has had an infinite past? How could we simulate that on a computer,
if there were no starting point?
We ce
Thanks Bruno, for your comments, I fully agree with you. Let me add a few
comments for Tim and Scerir
Tim May wrote:
Consider this thought experiment: Alice is facing her quantum mechanics exam
at Berkeley. She sees two main approaches to take. First, study hard and
try to answer all of th
From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Jan 9, 2003 1:22:32 PM US/Pacific
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quantum suicide without suicide
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 12:32 PM, George Levy wrote:
As you can see, suicide is not necessary. One could be on death row -
in other words
Bruno Marchal wrote:
For example they will correctly
infer some standard model particle theory from they high level
experimentations, but as soon they will build particle accelerator
to verify their theories, discrepancies will appear (just because
we have not simulate the society-world at such a
Tim May wrote:
From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Jan 9, 2003 1:22:32 PM US/Pacific
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quantum suicide without suicide
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 12:32 PM, George Levy wrote:
As you can see, suicide is not necessary. One could be on death ro
George Levy wrote:
Conclusions:
All this involves really basic probability theory.
The first person perspective probability is identical to the
probability conditional to the person staying alive.
But that first-person probability is not objective, and not valid, and
not useful.
Consider thi
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