MBlume comments on Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 April 2009 10:26PM

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Comment author: pre 05 April 2009 11:07:27PM *  10 points [-]

So if you find you ARE that friend, presumably you'd have no fear of stepping in front of that gun barrel yourself for a few million flips right afterwards. I mean it's pretty convincing proof. Then you get to see the confusion in each other's face!

Though you're both more likely to end up mopping your friend's blood of the floor.

On the whole, I think a good friend probably doesn't let a friend test the Quantum Theory of Immortality.

Comment author: MBlume 05 April 2009 11:20:21PM *  14 points [-]

Even if QTI is true, a good friend doesn't test it, for fear of leaving behind (many copies of) a bereaved friend.