Re: quantum suicide = deadly dumb

From: Wei Dai <weidai.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:48:51 -0800

On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 01:29:03PM -0800, Wei Dai wrote:
> But in the MWI, you can't maximize anything since all of the measures are
> predetermined by boundary conditions.

Let me amend this and say that at least with MWI the boundary conditions
are a free parameter, so you can still preserve the old decision theory by
saying alternative wavefunctions with different boundary conditions are
available and that an individual can choose which one is real by his
actions. But an "everything" hypothesis is supposed to have no free
parameters, so even this wouldn't work.
Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 13:51:06 PST