Jacob Barandes
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7,673 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Irremovable, irreducible way.
If there's a universe in which there are infinitely many copies.
of observers who look just like me, who are named Jacob Arendus, who live on planets called Earth, who have all the same details we talked about.
They were born in a city called New York City.
Everything is the same.
If I want to ask which Jacob Barandess am I?
We now run into kind of a tricky question.
I can't replace I with Jacob Arendus anymore because then the statement reduces to a tautology.
Which Jacob Barandes is Jacob Barandes?
No wait.
Which Jacob Barandes who was born in New York City is Jacob Barndis who was born in New York City?
You see that
There's something qualitatively different about those kinds of statements.
We can't remove the indexicals.
No matter how hard we try.
And it wasn't clear to me that anything we've learned about the use of probability.
For statements that
Don't involve indexicals in an irre irremovable way.
It didn't seem to me that anything we learned, any experiences we had using probabilities in those kinds of situations
Could tell us anything reliable about how to use probability in situations that involved irremovable indexicals.
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