Benquo comments on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World - Less Wrong
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Because you understand that you can't change it:
I don't think this claim is true in all cases, but it seems plausible here. There's no adaptive value to learning about "risks" you were subject to before you were able to do anything about them, so I don't feel how bad it was that I almost wasn't born as myself. But I did feel a kind of possible-worlds regret when I stepped out into the street without looking and almost got hit by a bus, since in some likely possible worlds I did get hit by that bus.
As I said below, if Omega offered me a financial deal to increase my measure - $100 per alternate Everett branch to make my father and mother meet and conceive me - this wouldn't seem like a remotely good use of my money.