Re: Quantum Decision Theory

From: Wei Dai <weidai.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:29:04 -0500

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:45:15PM -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
> Another angle on this argument takes an even broader view. Let us
> consider all observer-moments in the multiverse. By eliminating those
> observer-moments which have a negative quality of life, we improve
                                ^^^^^^^^
> the average quality of all observer-moments and therefore we make the
      ^^^^^^^
> multiverse a better place to live. This is the same basic argument, but
> applied to all observers rather than just the individual who was injured.

Wouldn't the same argument apply if you replace "negative" with "below
average"? But if you (recursively) eliminate all below average
observer-moments, you'll be left with only one observer-moment. Surely
that isn't the best possible state of the multiverse.

Perhaps you meant "total" instead of "average" above. I think that makes a
bit more sense, but it still conflicts with the intuition that running the
same computation multiple times is pointless.

Tim accuses us of trying to "perfect" the multiverse. Sure, that's
something to look forward to :), but right now I'm still trying to figure
out what makes one multiverse better than another.
Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 04:29:37 PST