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75 Post author: michaelcurzi 17 March 2012 07:44PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 March 2012 08:19:39AM *  7 points [-]

Oh yeah, quantum suicide. The problem is that with sufficiently bad car accidents, the worlds where I survive with, say, a full-body paralysis or something vastly outnumber those where I survive in a reasonably intact body.

ETA: Wait, that's the "plain" anthropic selection effect. I don't get how your generalized pseudo-anthropic selection effect is supposed to work.