wedrifid comments on Belief in Belief vs. Internalization - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 30 November 2010 12:58:43AM 4 points [-]

Now, I wonder if anyone would take part in such a raffle if all the entrants who didn't win were killed on the spot. That would mean that everyone would win in some universe, and cease to exist in the other universes where they entered. Could that be a kind of intellectual assent vs belief test for Many Worlds?

No. No. No!

Quantum Sour-Grapes (ie. what you described) could be the result of a technically coherent value system but not a sane one. Unless there is some kind of physical or emotional torture involved dying doesn't make things better regardless of QM!