Aha - you are talking about my solution to the crisis in Europe;s unfunded
pensions crisis!
<<Quantum Physics and Pensions.doc>>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wei Dai [SMTP:weidai.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: 25 November 1998 23:05
> To: Jacques M. Mallah; everything-list.domain.name.hidden
> Subject: Re: quantum suicide = deadly dumb
>
> Quantum suicide does seem pretty dumb, but consider a game of chance from
> a science fiction story (I can't remember which one). If you win this
> game, you receive a monetary payoff from the dealer, but if you lose, you
> are killed and the dealer gets your corpse (to sell for body parts) and
> your estate.
>
> Suppose you have a choice to play this game, would you do it? Or more
> generally, what is a resonable decision theory when every thing (or maybe
> experience) already exists and has a definite measure?
Received on Thu Nov 26 1998 - 01:13:17 PST