[ExI] Repeated Experience (was Affecting Past Experience)
Russell Wallace
russell.wallace at gmail.com
Thu Jul 26 17:42:25 UTC 2007
On 7/25/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> Now actually, the pointer (*this) in my opinion must refer equally
> to this point in both runs. But to me, I am faced with the prospect
> of my runtime suddenly getting cut in half. This is exactly how the
> MWI devotee feels regarding a sudden fifty-fifty chance of
> imminent death: in half the universes he's okay, and in the other
> half he dies immediately. For me, I have a sort of fancy
> "Many Worlds Normalization Principle" which asserts that with
> very few exceptions, one ought to regard our feelings the same
> whether or not Many Worlds is true. In particular, having a 50/50
> chance of death---which ordinarily of course makes people worry
> greatly---should be regarded as a 50% reduction in measure over
> a sheath of worlds.
Yes, I agree with that. Indeed, while the two are logically equivalent, on
an emotional level I find measure accounting a more useful way to think of
it, being more conducive to calmly optimizing for expected utility across
all outcomes (as opposed to fruitlessly trying to deny any chance of a bad
outcome).
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