BenP comments on What a reduction of "probability" probably looks like - Less Wrong

8 Post author: cousin_it 17 August 2010 02:58PM

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Comment author: BenP 17 August 2010 03:46:09PM 4 points [-]

I'm unfamiliar with the terminology "2-sampling", "2-world", "3-world", etc. and a quick internet search has not turned up anything useful. Could you summarize what they mean or direct me to a place that explains them?

Comment author: cousin_it 17 August 2010 03:48:57PM *  2 points [-]

I'd imagined these terms would be self-explanatory from the post :-) The numbers refer to variants of the Born rule where the exponent doesn't necessarily equal 2. For example, see page 6 of this paper by Aaronson.

Comment author: SilasBarta 17 August 2010 04:37:00PM *  5 points [-]

I figured out what the n-world referred to because of familiarity with the problem, but it would probably still help to specifically define it, since it doesn't take much effort but would save readers a lot of time.

Comment author: BenP 17 August 2010 03:57:58PM 1 point [-]

Ah thanks. I should've been able to figure that out from your third thought experiment anyways.