On Jan 25, 3:50 am, Russell Standish <l....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:54:32PM -0500, John M wrote:
>
> > PS I still would appreciate to be directed to a short text explaining the essence of ASSA (RSSA?). JIt is in my book. Here is the relevant excerpt:
>
> \section[ASSA vs RSSA]{Absolute vs Relative Self Sampl\-ing Assumption}
>
> In the course of a lengthy, and at times heated debate between Jacques
> Mallah and myself, it became clear we were always arguing from
> disparate positions\cite{Mallah-Standish}. At the heart of our
> difference of opinion was how the strong self sampling
> assumption\index{self sampling assumption!strong|emph} should be
> applied. Jacques Mallah assumed that each observer moment had an
> absolute positive measure, and that our current observer moment is
> selected at random from that distribution.
>
> Since I accept the TIME postulate,\index{TIME postulate} only the
> birth moment is selected at random, according to the self sampling
> assumption. Thereafter, each observer moment's measure can be
> determined {\em relative} to its predecessor by means of Born's
> rule\index{Born rule}
> (\ref{proj-prob}). Arguing with this notion of observer measure, first
> person immortality follows provided the no cul-de-sac conjecture\index{no cul-de-sac conjecture} is
> true.
>
> The Everything List adopted the term {\em Absolute Self Sampling
> Assumption}\index{self sampling assumption!absolute|emph} to
> refer to Mallah's use of strong self sampling, and the {\em Relative
> Self Sampling Assumption}\index{self sampling assumption!relative|emph} for the version I use. Since this
> debate took place, other debates have taken place between members of
> the ``absolute'' camp, which includes such names as Jacques
> Mallah,\index{Mallah, Jacques}
> Saibal Mitra,\index{Mitra, Saibal} Hal Finney\index{Finney, Hal} and the ``relative'' camp which includes
> Bruno Marchal,\index{Marchal, Bruno} Stathis
> Papaioannou, and myself.
>
> \index{Papaioannou, Stathis}\index{Standish, Russell}
>
> Both of these ``camps'' appear to have internally consistent pictures.
> The fact that I'm not currently experiencing childhood, is for me
> strong evidence that the ASSA is an incorrect application of the
> strong self sampling assumption.
>
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I think you can add me to the ASSA camp :)
How does the fact that you're not experiencing childhood provide
evidence that ASSA is incorrect, as chances of experiencing childhood
or adulthood are both significant so I don't see why that would rule
out ASSA ... I kind of expected a different definition for RSSA as this
definition does not even solve any of the crazy paradoxes ASSA has ...
Well, anyway, time to look up the time postulate :)
Also, do you believe one can convince oneself of MWI (versus CI) by
performing a quantum suicide ?
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