JulianMorrison comments on Striving to Accept

20Eliezer_Yudkowsky09 March 2009 11:29PM

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JulianMorrison11 March 2009 02:20:52PM3 points [-]

I just earlier today used the same quantum viewpoint. I was thinking "I really wish I had a lot of money, I ought to play the lottery, there is some chance." I factually know this is nonsense. I was able to make that intuitive by transforming "a chance of winning" into "a huge spread of worlds with a few rare winners". I will both win and not-win, but most of me doesn't win - that's just not a good result.

The desire to play the lottery went away.