Manfred comments on A note on the description complexity of physical theories - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 10 November 2010 09:22:41PM 0 points [-]

It's a good thought to reject.

In fact, quantum immortality has little to do with the actual properties of the universe, as long as it's probabilistic. It's just what happens when you arbitrarily (well, anthropically) decide to stop counting certain possibilities.