Re: What would make you believe?

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:40:51 -0500, Arthur T. <arthur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In Message-ID:<0t0sq3dbpdo8mtj17t8ia12b591h885dd5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Wildepad <noreplies> wrote: 
> <snip>
>>But there is something you can do. They have records from 'our' time
>>and know that tonight's lottery won't have a winner. He's checked the
>>numbers from six different games for the past two weeks (as displayed
>>on a poster at a gas station he passed on his way from the transfer
>>point to your home), and all 552 numbers agree with those on his list,
>>indicating high parallelism with their universe. Since the drawing is
>>within hours and at a considerable distance, it is highly unlikely
>>that his presence will affect the balls drawn.
> <snip>
>>What, if anything, could he say to convince you to spend a dollar to
>>play 'his' numbers for a $65,000,000 lottery?
>
>     It doesn't matter.  Given infinite parallel universes: in
>some I'll be convinced; in some I won't; in some I'd have played
>those numbers, regardless.

True, but we're talking about *this* you in *this* universe. :)


>     Your homework assignment is to read Niven's "All the Myriad
>Ways" (a short story collected in a book of the same name).

Did, a long time ago. Great writing, good philosophical base.
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