Douglas_Knight comments on Great post on Reddit about accepting atheism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 31 August 2009 12:36:55AM 2 points [-]

In a Big World, though, there is no one person who generated those memories. If you can accurately approximate the objective distribution of those people, and draw someone at random from it, that seems as good as resurrection to me. (Assuming quantum immortality/no Death events, and strictly patternist personal identity/causal continuity is unimportant; I see no reason not to assume these, but apparently some disagree.)

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 31 August 2009 06:17:01AM 0 points [-]

I can't parse your assumptions - are they separate assumptions, or are you implying that they're equivalent? Quantum immortality, in particular, seems irrelevant to the argument. I don't see what the disagreement is in the link, except to QI.