lavalamp comments on Timeless Identity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lavalamp 01 October 2013 11:37:51PM 0 points [-]

@linkhyrule5 had an answer better than the one I had in mind. The probability of us going bowling together is approximately equal to the probability that you are already in said simulation, if computational continuity is what matters.

You could understand my 50% answer to be expressing my uncertainty as to whether I'm in the simulation or not. It's the same thing.

I don't understand what "computational continuity" means. Can you explain it using a program that computes the digits of pi as an example?

Rather, some doppelganger twin that in every outward way behaves like me will take up my life where I left off. And that's fine, but let's be clear about the difference.

I think you're making a distinction that exists only in the map, not in the territory. Can you point to something in the territory that this matters for?