JGWeissman comments on The Lifespan Dilemma - Less Wrong
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Doesn't many-worlds solve this neatly? Thinking of it as 99.9999999% of the mes sacrificing ourselves so that the other 0.00000001% can live a ridiculously long time makes sense to me. The problem comes when you favor this-you over all the other instances of yourself.
Or maybe there's a reason I stay away from this kind of thing. <shrug>
Not all probabilities are quantum probabilities.
True, I was assuming a quantum probability.