And for very similar reasons, anyone who gave a lower probability to the cryonics question than to the many worlds question is inconsistent. Wonder how many people did that?
EDIT Surprised a bit by the downvotes here. Did the many worlders interpret “probability of being revived at some point in the future” as “fraction of future worlds in which the person is revived” (or more technically, something like, “quantum measure of future revival across worlds containing humans in a state consistent with our present knowledge”). Rather than “probability of being revived in any future world”? If so, it is consistent to assign a high probability to many worlds, but a low probability to revival.
I would also love there to be a question on probability that Santa exists among the religion ones, and then compare answers to that with many worlds. Santa exists in some worlds, after all, even though his measure is miniscule...
EDIT: Same issue here. Does a many-worker typically interpret P(Santa Exists) as “measure across worlds consistent with our knowledge in which Santa exists” rather than “probability Santa exists in any world”?
Good point…
And for very similar reasons, anyone who gave a lower probability to the cryonics question than to the many worlds question is inconsistent. Wonder how many people did that?
EDIT Surprised a bit by the downvotes here. Did the many worlders interpret “probability of being revived at some point in the future” as “fraction of future worlds in which the person is revived” (or more technically, something like, “quantum measure of future revival across worlds containing humans in a state consistent with our present knowledge”). Rather than “probability of being revived in any future world”? If so, it is consistent to assign a high probability to many worlds, but a low probability to revival.
I would also love there to be a question on probability that Santa exists among the religion ones, and then compare answers to that with many worlds. Santa exists in some worlds, after all, even though his measure is miniscule...
EDIT: Same issue here. Does a many-worker typically interpret P(Santa Exists) as “measure across worlds consistent with our knowledge in which Santa exists” rather than “probability Santa exists in any world”?