On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:40 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/5/2013 12:53 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> 2013/12/5 Jason Resch <[email protected]> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Quentin Anciaux >>> <[email protected]>wrote:... >>> >> Probabilities add up to one... >>>> >>> Which probabilities are you referring to here? >>> >> >> The probabilities applies only on your continuation, the partitioning >> of the infinity of continuations where you're alive are the probabilities >> to find yourself in such continuation or such other, those adds up to >> one... >> > > Think of it like this: There are 10,000 explanations for your current > experience. 9,950 are various physical and biological instances of you > living on Earth, 30 instances are various ancestor simulations run by > future humans, 15 are by advanced aliens in other universes, and 5 are by > Drelb-like entities. If you shoot yourself in the head with a quantum gun, > 4,975 of the 9,950 biological instances are dead, and 25 of the 50 > simulated ones awaken from the simulation. You pull the trigger again, and > 2488 of the 4975 biological survivors from the first trigger pull are dead, > and 13 of the 25 simulated survivors wake up from their simulation. Note > that with each trigger pull, the proportion who are still alive (either in > the simulation or having awoken from it) remains the same: at 50, while the > population of physical/biological entities is cut in half each time. After > another 12 or so trigger pulls the only remaining survivors will be those > that were simulated, and all of them now find themselves in a different > realm. > > > ?? They were in a different realm all along. > > But it was subjectively indistinguishable, as it is the execution of same program. When some of the programs stop, other incarnations of it continue. Jason -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
