Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Real-Life Anthropic Weirdness - Less Wrong
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Wouldn't any of several multiverse theories predict the survival outcome, and therefore you can't conclude that the quantum MWI is correct? That is, a world which is single, yet contains you infinitely many times due to being spatially infinite, will also "collapse" every so often and let you survive. Or the simulation masters could be selectively manipulating the quantum events to make people who do weird experiments like this survive (no, I don't think this is likely at all).
Why would observing your own survival make you extremely confident of quantum MWI as opposed to other multiverse or savior theories?