From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 15:14:21 MDT
Wei writes:
> Like asking whether you should listen to Beethoven or Mozart, it may not
> be possible to determine your preference ahead of time. You may just have
> to try both and see which one you like better. Maybe in the music case you
> can guess ahead of time by considering what other composers you like, but
> it's hard to think of something that is both familiar and similar enough
> to re-runing computations to give you a useful clue here.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem like a situation where you can try both
and see what you like better. Suppose I am in a sim and someone offers
to run me twice tomorrow, on two computers in parallel. So I try it out,
and afterwards I am asked if I liked it better. But I don't see how I
could perceive a difference from the extra run. So this line of analysis
does not seem to shed much light on whether I should value reruns,
since I can't perceive them, or at least can't remember perceiving them.
Hal
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