Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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They'll they'll give an example, they'll they'll say something like, Well, how do we fix the kinds of probabilities we want to use in a multiverse scenario with lots of copies of ourselves?
Well, consider this following non-multiverse scenario.
Yeah.
You know, in which we have experience with probability, we know how it's supposed to work.
And then extend that intuition to this other circumstance.
But there really is a qualitative separation here.
You know, there are a lot of problems in in philosophy that you can call sorties problems or heap problems.
Uh how do you decide when you're uh you know, when you when you switch from one thing to another?
Often there are smooth gradations between them, right?
How many uh strands of straw do you need?
to have a heap of straw.
One strand is not a heap, two is not a heap, three is not a heap.
A billion, we would call that a heap, maybe a very big heap, but like where's the line between them?
A lot of problems in philosophy are like that with this no sharp line.
This is actually one of the circumstances in which I think there is a bright line.
And remarkably, despite the fact that there's a bright line
It's very easy not to see it.
Yes, a sharp a sharp right.
Yeah, exactly.
There's a a sharp demarcation.
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