Then perhaps you would be willing to justify this earlier comment of yours, regarding my question of "so what?" directed at Jabba.
Your response was meaningless. Been meaningless since the first time you did it. Still is.
Analogy: I claim you owe me 50 bucks. You pull out a many sided die, roll it, and reply "So what?"
Why even bother with the die roll? Were you going for dramatic effect? Bottom line, you don't want to pay the fifty bucks and you're not going to. But you do, apparently, want to argue about it for a couple of years.
Your die roll and subsequent question didn't even address Jabba's conditional perspective. You're not even taking issue with the validity of the conditional perspective, you simply ignore it. You don't even bother to explain why you ignore it, which suggests you may not even be aware of it.
Jabba's formula relies on his subjective perspective. In probability theory it's called "conditional probability". Therefore, the formula only applies to the user. It can be applied by anyone who has been ceded a similar perspective. But only on themselves. Jabba can't use it on you. You can't use it on Jabba. You can't roll a die, exclaim "so what", and then pretend your dramatic act addresses conditional probability.
Your die roll and question demonstrated that you don't give a dead rat's ass about any of that, but you did ask me to justify my rejection of your big adventurous die roll, so first I'll need to see if you even know what conditional probability is and how it differs from rolling a die and then exclaiming "so what".
Just for starters, users of conditional probability do not simply exclaim "so what" at what their conditional perspective reveals. They actually use it.
Here's an analogy on conditional probability from one of Max Tegmark's books.
A shell game is in progress. 3 people are present: the dealer, his young daughter standing next to him, and 1 player. Both the player and the dealer's rather short daughter have conditionally generated probability distributions on the location of the pea.
The player simply knows the pea is under one of 2 shells. His conditional probability distribution is ( 0.5, 0.5)
The girl saw the pea when the dealer slightly lifted the corner of the concealing shell. Her probability distribution is (1, 0)
According to Tegmark, an accomplished practical and theoretical cosmologist, both conditional perspectives are equally valid, both making full use of the conditional information available. The only difference is, the girl is twice as likely to correctly locate the pea, solely due to the advantage ceded to her by her conditional perspective.
The dealer represents the universe. The girl and the player represent two otherwise equal residents of the universe, looking at the same events from different conditional perspectives.
It doesn't relate directly to Jabba's specific conditional setup. It's just about what conditional probability does.
