Re: Quantum Suicide Bombing

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:49:20 +0200

Le 09-juil.-05, à 16:09, David Deutsch a écrit :


> On 8 Jul 2005, at 11:25am, <Herwig.Huener.domain.name.hidden>
> <Herwig.Huener.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
>> Now - what should be done about the presentation of
>> this concep of "Quantum Suicide Bombing"?
>>
>> By the way: The discussion is *not* about the validity
>> of many worlds interpretation. In order to do a quantum
>> suicide attack, one only has to *believe* in
>> many world interpretation.
>
> In my opinion, not *only*: one also has to have some misconceptions
> about probability and decisions (and about morality too).
>
> *The Beginning of Infinity* is going to contain a critique of the
> "quantum suicide" argument and what I consider to be other misuses of
> the concept of probability such as the "simulation argument".



Which misuses?
Which misconceptions?
Schmidhuber, Bostrom, or ...


Bruno



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