Dagon comments on Open Thread March 28 - April 3 , 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dagon 28 March 2016 04:17:38PM 1 point [-]

Are you assuming a non-MWI universe? Doesn't every source of randomness just imply different branches in proportion to their amplitude?

Comment author: SquirrelInHell 29 March 2016 02:03:51AM 1 point [-]

I'm assuming MWI, but noticing that NOT every source of "randomness" implies different branches.

Some things may, or may not, be interconnected in ways we don't see, and can't detect. (E.g. it's been shown that humans can learn to flip coins predictably etc.)

My point is to provably, with as high confidence as we require split the world into different branches, as opposed to having a pretty good chance but we don't know exactly how good of creating different branches.