Fascinating post. I’m trying to reconcile the exhaustion mechanism with its supposed evolutionary purpose.
The idea that a brief, low-stakes coin-flip experiment could deplete a critical survival resource for as long as 10 days seems evolutionarily counter-productive. Wouldn’t a truly survival-oriented brain develop a strong prioritization mechanism, saving this ability exclusively for life-or-death situations while ignoring trivial stimuli?
The high cost (a 10-day recharge) for such a low-value outcome is the main paradox I see here. What are your thoughts on this?
A good question. Why this mechanism (assuming that it exists) doesn’t result in me winning in all games 100 per cent of times? One explanation is that exhaustion is built-in property. As I described in a sub-comment above, one way to simulate Youngness paradox in MWI is to mark each my moments with some growing gauge or mark.
Another explanation is that the growth of my measure-thickness in time is naturally slow and that I irreversibly burn my excess measure to get probability updates. For example, if I was able to grow the “excess of my number of copies above normal” 2 times, I can use it once to turn probability of Tails from 0.5 to 2⁄3.
Fascinating post. I’m trying to reconcile the exhaustion mechanism with its supposed evolutionary purpose.
The idea that a brief, low-stakes coin-flip experiment could deplete a critical survival resource for as long as 10 days seems evolutionarily counter-productive. Wouldn’t a truly survival-oriented brain develop a strong prioritization mechanism, saving this ability exclusively for life-or-death situations while ignoring trivial stimuli?
The high cost (a 10-day recharge) for such a low-value outcome is the main paradox I see here. What are your thoughts on this?
A good question. Why this mechanism (assuming that it exists) doesn’t result in me winning in all games 100 per cent of times? One explanation is that exhaustion is built-in property. As I described in a sub-comment above, one way to simulate Youngness paradox in MWI is to mark each my moments with some growing gauge or mark.
Another explanation is that the growth of my measure-thickness in time is naturally slow and that I irreversibly burn my excess measure to get probability updates. For example, if I was able to grow the “excess of my number of copies above normal” 2 times, I can use it once to turn probability of Tails from 0.5 to 2⁄3.