Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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But maybe
The theory predicts there will be
many observers, maybe each observer will appear many times as copies, as clones.
Then one way to think about probability in that case is maybe we we we can bring probability in at the level of credences, of beliefs.
And
We use this kind of reasoning all the time.
Even outside these exotic circumstances, when I wanna talk about how much I believe that my favorite sports team is gonna win a particular championship game.
There is maybe one fact of the matter about what's going to happen, but I don't know what it is.
And maybe the best way to describe in a probabilistic way how strongly I believe my team is gonna win is to use this language of credences.
Often when we use language, the language of probability
Whether we're talking about objective chance or we're talking about credence type belief probability.
We often
are attaching those probabilities to statements.
Statements that may or may not involve people.
Like Jacob, or like Emily, or like Kurt.
And and sometimes we'll find it convenient not to say Jacob or Emily or Kurt, but to say words like I or you or us.
Words like I, you, me, us, these are called indexical words.
like an index, like a thing identifying a particular thing out of a set of things.
Indexical words have a meaning that depends on who is saying it.
When Jacob says I
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