Oscar_Cunningham comments on If MWI is correct, should we expect to experience Quantum Torment? - Less Wrong
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I don't think you have any factual inaccuracies.
Most of his premises are approximately correct but applied incorrectly to reach an incorrect conclusion (that is the first sentence). It could be restored by injecting caveats like "for all practical purposes" and "virtually" here but the thing is the whole "Immortality" notion is already ridiculously impractical to begin with. Quantum tunneling through the bus and leaving your arm behind is only a few gagillion orders of magnitude more unlikely than winning Quantum Roulette ten times a day every day for 1,000 years. It is stupid to consider those improbable outcomes as privileged but not wrong.