Re: White Rabbit vs. Tegmark

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:22:50 +1000

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:20:35AM +0100, Patrick Leahy wrote:
>
> A measure like this works for the continuum but not for the naturals
> because you can map the continuum onto a finite segment of the real line.
> In m6511 Russell Standish describes how a measure can be applied to the
> naturals which can't be converted into a probability. I must say, I'm not
> completely sure what that would be good for.
>
> Paddy Leahy

Umm, doomsday argument reasoning when the total number of people who
ever will have lived is infinite (but countable). Explain more later,
if interested.

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