From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Mar 07 2009 - 19:34:52 MST
--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You're asking the wrong question. One of you will
> > experience heads and one will experience tails.
>
> You are dismissing the significance of the difference between
> subjective, first person experience and objective, third person
> description. You may as well argue that going to the cinema is a waste
> of money since what's *really* projected on the screen is a series of
> still frames.
In a world where people can't be copied, it makes perfect sense to ask what you can expect to experience. In a world where people can be copied, you need to define what you mean by "you". It comes down to how your brain calculates probabilities, and whether it is using an appropriate algorithm in this new world where probabilities don't have to add up to 1.
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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