DanielLC comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 23 June 2014 04:49:33AM 0 points [-]

I believe personal identity is an illusion. Given that, quantum suicide, as it is normally given, clearly wouldn't work. You could do something similar by ending the universe if it's suboptimal, and getting something good by the anthropic principle, but you have to take into account that there's a lot of observer-moment-probability-density before it starts branching and you start destroying it, so you have to take that into account.