Let’s say God flipped a logical coin to choose between creating a billion or a trillion observers in a single universe. Is that equivalent to your example?
What if God does that many times, but you can distinguish between them? First flip a blue coin to decide between creating a billion or a trillion blue people. Then flip a purple coin to decide between creating a billion or a trillion purple people. And so on, for many different colors. You know your own color: green. What are your beliefs about the green coin?
1000:1 on tails (with tails → create large universe). It’s a very good question. My answer is late because it made me think about some stuff that confused me at first, an I wanted to make sure that everything I say now is coherent with everything I said in the post.
If god flipped enough logical coins for you to be able to make the approximation that half of them came up heads, you can update on the color of your logical coin based on the fact that your current version is green. This is a thousand times as likely if the green coin came up tails vs heads. You can’t do the same if god only created one universe.
If god created more than one but still only a few universes, let’s say two, then the chance that your coin came up heads is a bit more than a quarter, which comes from the heads-heads case. The heads-tails case is possible but highly unlikely.
Let’s say God flipped a logical coin to choose between creating a billion or a trillion observers in a single universe. Is that equivalent to your example?
Yes.
I’m not used to the concept of a logical coin, but yes, that’s equivalent.
You need the consciousness condition & that god only does this once. Then my theory outputs the SSA answer.
What if God does that many times, but you can distinguish between them? First flip a blue coin to decide between creating a billion or a trillion blue people. Then flip a purple coin to decide between creating a billion or a trillion purple people. And so on, for many different colors. You know your own color: green. What are your beliefs about the green coin?
1000:1 on tails (with tails → create large universe). It’s a very good question. My answer is late because it made me think about some stuff that confused me at first, an I wanted to make sure that everything I say now is coherent with everything I said in the post.
If god flipped enough logical coins for you to be able to make the approximation that half of them came up heads, you can update on the color of your logical coin based on the fact that your current version is green. This is a thousand times as likely if the green coin came up tails vs heads. You can’t do the same if god only created one universe.
If god created more than one but still only a few universes, let’s say two, then the chance that your coin came up heads is a bit more than a quarter, which comes from the heads-heads case. The heads-tails case is possible but highly unlikely.