[LINK] Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer?

From Quora:

"Now Mr. Jobs always was a free thinker, a strong believer in spirituality, a vegetarian and a known skeptic of conventional medicine. He chose to reject conventional medicine altogether. He's not alone in that. We come across many people like this and we all know someone in our midst that uses homeopathy or has this known fear of anything "chemical" (to those I always say that everything is chemical, if you think dihydrogen oxide sounds scary you should stop drinking water). Individual freedom of thought and choice is a cornerstone of our modern society and the medical world makes no exception."

From Quora:

"Now Mr. Jobs always was a free thinker, a strong believer in spirituality, a vegetarian and a known skeptic of conventional medicine. He chose to reject conventional medicine altogether. He's not alone in that. We come across many people like this and we all know someone in our midst that uses homeopathy or has this known fear of anything "chemical" (to those I always say that everything is chemical, if you think dihydrogen oxide sounds scary you should stop drinking water). Individual freedom of thought and choice is a cornerstone of our modern society and the medical world makes no exception."

I doubt you were measuring. You seem to be classifying only by features you care about, a common flaw when doing physics.

"Nearby everett branches" means universes in similar quantum states to ours. Everyone (recently) dead but in the exact same place is a much nearer branch than everyone alive but 1 cm to the left.

I was kinda measuring. My estimate was that given random flips in quantum states (many), it would be easiest (take order of magnitude fewer quantum flips) to change Job's decision, somewhat harder to change the type of his cancer or toggle whether he had cancer (for example, by changing the stochastic cell changes that led to his cancer) and require such completely different universes to change his type of cancer that it isn't even clear whether he could be considered Steve Jobs anymore.

Another way of looking at it is with subsets of universes. Consider th... (read more)

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