Yvain comments on MWI, weird quantum experiments and future-directed continuity of conscious experience - Less Wrong
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Well, the reason I ask is that if you're standing outside the multiverse at 8:16, and you count the number of universes with living mes that were saved by the coin landing tails, and those with living mes that were saved by quantum fluctuation, the ones with tails outnumber the ones with fluctuations several gazillion to one, since from an outsider's point of view there's a 1/2 chance I'll get saved by tails versus a one in a gazillion chance I'll be saved by fluctuations.
But from my perspective, if and only if we enforce continuity of experience, there's a 50-50 chance I'll find myself saved by tails vs. fluctuations. But this creates the odd situation of there being certain "mes" in the multiverse whom I am much more likely to end out as than others.
why? why not just condition your existing probability distributions on continued conscious experience?