> > >If it is taken to refer to computational continuations of
> > >your present state, the usual conditional probabilities obviously apply.
> >
> > This is just what I take for the RSSA !
>
> Obviously you don't understand. With the ASSA, it is always
> possible to find the conditional probability of an observation given a
> suitable condition. Choosing a condition and asking a question about it
> changes nothing about the real situation.
> The difference between the ASSA and RSSA really becomes apparent
> when the ASSA predicts nonconservation of measure as a function of time.
> Obviously this does not happen in most everyday, nonfatal situations.
Unless you've changed your spots Jacques, you are starting to become
incoherent. ASSA is not defined with reference to time, so therefore
cannot make any statements about it. The RSSA is.
> BTW, even if the effective probability to "survive" (in the
> computational continuation sense of "me") (i.e. the chance of getting a
> large subjective time observation) is low, I can always ask what I would
> see on the *condition* that my subjective time is such and such.
> As I have previously mentioned, the trouble with this definition
> of "identity" is that a single person at time t may be 'continued' into
> multiple persons at a later time, or the reverse. There is nothing
> random about that, of course. It's just a definition of a word and
> teaches nothing about physics. The ASSA is the way to get predictions.
>
> - - - - - - -
> Jacques Mallah (jqm1584.domain.name.hidden)
> Graduate Student / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate
> "I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum
> My URL: http://pages.nyu.edu/~jqm1584/
>
>
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