Mitchell_Porter comments on Conditioning on Observers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 13 May 2010 07:55:17AM 4 points [-]

Somewhat off-topic, but it should broaden our view of the past to know that people were thinking like this long ago: An essay from 1872 by a French political radical arguing that in an infinite universe, each of our lives is infinitely duplicated on other worlds, and so we are all effectively immortal.