“To this I know of no reply which the grue skeptic can make, if he/she say’s the paragraph back to me with the proper words swapped, it is not true, because In the hypothetical where we have a table, a line, and we are calling one side right and another side left, the only way for Refts:Lefts behave as expected as more trials are added is to move the line (if even that), otherwise the ratio of Refts to Lights will approach the reciprocal of Rights to Lefts. ”
He can simply define the term “line” to imply that it flips directions at time t.
This paradox seems to be equivalent to talking about the programming language that the K-complexity of something uses. For example, in any realistic programming language, it would be easier to define MWI than the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, since the latter involves all the laws of the former and then some, but what if you use a language that, once MWI is defined, assumes waveform collapse and such unless told otherwise? You can construct a language to match any given prior, and while any two such languages and priors will converge in the limit, you can’t say which is right for a finite case.
“To this I know of no reply which the grue skeptic can make, if he/she say’s the paragraph back to me with the proper words swapped, it is not true, because In the hypothetical where we have a table, a line, and we are calling one side right and another side left, the only way for Refts:Lefts behave as expected as more trials are added is to move the line (if even that), otherwise the ratio of Refts to Lights will approach the reciprocal of Rights to Lefts. ”
He can simply define the term “line” to imply that it flips directions at time t.
This paradox seems to be equivalent to talking about the programming language that the K-complexity of something uses. For example, in any realistic programming language, it would be easier to define MWI than the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, since the latter involves all the laws of the former and then some, but what if you use a language that, once MWI is defined, assumes waveform collapse and such unless told otherwise? You can construct a language to match any given prior, and while any two such languages and priors will converge in the limit, you can’t say which is right for a finite case.
“Oh yeah? Well I’m going to go hang out in the dark while doomed. You’ll see!”