Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

From: Russell Standish <lists.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:41:04 +1100

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:48:40PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Russell Standish <lists.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > Bruno's answer is right, but not necessarily the easiest to
> > understand. A very simple way of putting it is to consider sampling a
> > random bitstream. Every time a bit is sampled, the Multiverse branches
> > with the observed bit being 0 or 1 depending on your branch. If you
> > were to continue for an infinite amount of time, each observer will
> > have observed a real number. However after any finite amount of time,
> > all the observers have are rational approximations to real numbers.
>
>
> Is that saying a real number has a contable infinity of decimal places?
>
> Stathis Papaioannou
>

Yes, of course.

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