Furcas comments on If MWI is correct, should we expect to experience Quantum Torment? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Furcas 10 November 2012 08:18:19AM 4 points [-]

Sure, but the subjective experience of being my past self will never causally follow from my subjective experience of being the current me, so I don't care.

Put another way, you're talking about timeless immortality. I'm talking about real immortality.

Comment author: Nominull 10 November 2012 06:15:00PM 2 points [-]

The difference between "never" and "with order epsilon probability" is of order epsilon, I wouldn't worry your head about it.

And you're not talking about real immortality, that's my point. Quantum immortality is no more real than timeless immortality, and arguably less.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 November 2012 01:08:11PM 1 point [-]

Put another way, you're talking about timeless immortality. I'm talking about real immortality.

You're talking about a different notion of immortality. As it ignores probability, it doesn't seem to capture the usual concept very well.

Comment author: wedrifid 11 November 2012 02:50:51AM *  1 point [-]

You're talking about a different notion of immortality. As it ignores probability, it doesn't seem to capture the usual concept very well.

For sure, whatever kind of "immortality" it is it certainly isn't something I would tend to describe as "real"!