Re: Does provability matter?

From: Wei Dai <weidai.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 16:58:30 -0800

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:29:26PM -0800, hal.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> What about the instantiations of people who measure the event the other
> way before the universe gets restarted and re-run from that point? They
> would see the wrong answer to the halting question, but they are just
> as conscious as the people who later see the right answer.

The people who see the wrong answer have zero measure because they exist
for only a finite amount of time on the output tape whereas the people who
see the right answer exist for an infinite amount of time on the output
tape.
Received on Fri Nov 02 2001 - 16:59:19 PST