Re: Amoeba croaks -

From: Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 13 03:03:45 1999

Hi Wei Dai,

>Wouldn't it be better to just try really hard to prove the Goldbach
>conjecture? In some worlds your brain will reorganize into one which knows
>either a proof or disproof the Goldbach conjecture, and I think the
>measure of such worlds would be greater than with the above method.

The problem is that if I don't commit quantum suicide my expectation of
beeing among worlds where I find a proof of Golbach is very low.
But my point was that with MWI, we must take into account that there will
exist worlds in which I survive the self-annihilation procedure.

>What is better of course depends on what you want/care about. But I expect
>you to care about the total measure of your future continutations.

I agree. Exactly. That is the very fundamental point.

Bruno
Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 03:03:45 PST