Re: Separate Copies Contribute Separately to One's Runtime

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@satx.rr.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 13:45:55 MST


At 11:52 AM 3/7/2008 -0800, Eliezer wrote:

>If you flip a fair quantum coin, have your exoself generate 100
>separated isomorphic copies of you conditional on the coin coming up
>heads, then, when (all of) you are about to look at the coin, should
>your subjective anticipation of seeing "heads" be 1:1 or 100:1?

Since presumably you are not informed when you've been copied, 100:1.
What else could it be? There are 100 ways of seeing heads and 1 of
seeing tails.

Damien Broderick



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