NancyLebovitz comments on Let's reimplement EURISKO! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2009 09:54:41PM 7 points [-]

Not all worlds in which you continue to exist are pleasant ones. I think Michael Vassar once called quantum immortality the most horrifying hypothesis he had ever taken seriously, or something along those lines.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 July 2010 12:19:02PM 1 point [-]

If there's quantum immortality, what proportion of your lives would be likely to be acutely painful?

I don't have an intuition on that one. It seems as though worlds in which something causes good health would predominate over just barely hanging on, but I'm unsure of this.