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Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2012 03:21:00PM 0 points [-]

Buy a ticket. Suspend your computer program just before the lottery drawing - which should of course be a quantum lottery, so that every ticket wins somewhere. Program your computational environment to, if you win, make a trillion copies of yourself, and wake them up for ten seconds, long enough to experience winning the lottery. Then suspend the programs, merge them again, and start the result. If you don't win the lottery, then just wake up automatically.

How would you do that???

Comment author: wedrifid 13 August 2012 01:27:31AM 0 points [-]

How would you do that???

Are you asking for a solution to the engineering problem of how to convert yourself into an Em? I can't help there. Once you have that, this part with the lottery seems simple. The 'merge them again' would be tricky both on the philosophy and the engineering side (perhaps harder than converting to an Em in the first place.)

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