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

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 12 June 2009 12:13:42AM 2 points [-]

That is silly. In the same vein, why worry about any risks? You'll continue to exist in whatever worlds they didn't develop into catastrophe.

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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: loqi 12 June 2009 10:39:25PM 3 points [-]

Indeed. In particular, "dying of old age" is pretty damn horrifying if you think quantum immortality holds.

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.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 12 June 2009 10:42:55PM 0 points [-]

Hunh. I'm glad I'm not the only person who has always found quantum immortality far more horrifying than nonexistence.