Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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It's just easier to say I.
But the use of I is not fundamental, it's it's just a shorthand, at least in this case.
In much of the science that we do, our use of indexical expressions like I, us, we, you can be replaced with third person objective descriptors.
Jacob Barendis, Kurt J.
Mungle, Emily Adlam, maybe with further details as needed.
So we have abundant experience with such
uses of probability in science and beyond science.
What bothered me about the use of probabilistic statements generally of a credence kind was
a belief degree of belief kind.
That's the kind that usually comes up in these circumstances.
In scenarios where there are many copies of ourselves, maybe infinitely many copies of ourselves, maybe in a universe that's infinitely big and which
There are infinitely many earths that all look like our earth, populated by people who look like the people here at this table.
And with Jacob Arendas's, or in the Everettian world picture, where the universe is splitting and there are many, many copies of all of us.
Is that now to make probabilistic assertions, to attach probabilities to statements, it seems like you have to use indexicals in a much more fundamental, irreducible way.
Now, other people have worked on this notion of irreducible indexicals before me, and there's a an interesting philosophy literature that I encourage people to read about.
It's very, very interesting literature.
But I was just very uncomfortable with
Trying to
Engage in rigorous probabilistic reasoning about statements that feature indexicals.
In an
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