You start doing the experiment, you flip four coins, 15⁄16 of you memorize a sequence, 15*32 of you memorized pairwise probably different sequences. In the end, you have a probability of 15⁄16 to find yourself having memorized a sequence. If QI works and half of you who find a tails in a first four coins commit suicide, start-experiment-you only has a 15⁄17 chance to find themselves having found tails and failed to kill themselves.
No, that would do nothing to the anthropic weights of each subtree. I meant ending your life as part of the thought experiment. Why would memorizing numbers do anything special?
Here’s how I predict your setup to work, and shame on you for chickening out:
http://sketchtoy.com/66313589
You start doing the experiment, you flip four coins, 15⁄16 of you memorize a sequence, 15*32 of you memorized pairwise probably different sequences. In the end, you have a probability of 15⁄16 to find yourself having memorized a sequence. If QI works and half of you who find a tails in a first four coins commit suicide, start-experiment-you only has a 15⁄17 chance to find themselves having found tails and failed to kill themselves.
What do you mean by “commit suicide” here? Memorize the results of 5 more coins?
No, that would do nothing to the anthropic weights of each subtree. I meant ending your life as part of the thought experiment. Why would memorizing numbers do anything special?