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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 26 May 2010 09:58:41AM 2 points [-]

Shock Level 5 is a good candidate for Dan Dennett's universal acid: an idea so corrosive that if we let it into our minds, everything we care about will be dissolved. You can't change anything in the multiverse - every decision or consequence that you don't make will be made infinitely many times elsewhere by near-identical copies of you. Every victory will be produced, as will every possible defeat.

I'm surprised this didn't link to Bostrom's Infinite Ethics [pdf].