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Comment author: jacob_cannell 29 October 2015 05:42:10PM 0 points [-]

Consider an ordered set of two mes -- me one minute ago and me now. In which sense this set is a probability distribution? What does it mean?

In the sense that everything is - we have uncertainty over the physical configurations.

So are you arguing that future resurrections will be, basically, a brute-force approach?

No.

In the sense of "We can't be sure whether A or B happened, so we'll simulate both A and B branches"?

That's just how complex multi-modal inference works in general. The multiverse complexity comes in from realizing that it is the whole set of similar future worlds creating past simulations.

Comment author: Lumifer 29 October 2015 06:12:58PM 0 points [-]

in the sense that everything is - we have uncertainty over the physical configurations.

But this has nothing to do with physical configurations. We have a set of two things -- to make things even simpler, let's make it a rock -- that differ in time. Unless you're going to posit some Time Lord who soars above the time line, assigning probabilities to time snapshots does not make any sense to me.