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Derek P
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I have been asking myself the same thing. Reading between the lines - and there are many of them - of what has been posted here, it seems that Wallace's scenario is of living in an MWI-universe but not necessarily realising it. And not necessarily knowing how to compute Born weights. Instead, the best expectation - as calculated by "us" on the rational agent's behalf - would be when the agent's decisions are based on estimates of probabilities which are numerically equal to the Born weights. So if he lives in a maverick world, his empirical estimates of the Born weights which he thinks of as probabilities, will simply be wrong. He will doubtless use them as they are presumably all he has but his strategy in life will be sub-optimum.Stephen Tashi said:Is the rational agent supposed to know the Born weights? For example, if he is an agent in a "maverick" world, do we assume he knows the correct values of the Born weights? - or would he believe some erroneous (from a global viewpoint) values for them?
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