Algernoq comments on timeless quantum immortality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Algernoq 11 December 2015 07:20:20AM *  0 points [-]

The "Wigner's Friend" experiment has some interesting examples that physicists already thought about.

whether this is a "correct" way to describe reality

I'll find out in about 100 years.

Comment author: gjm 11 December 2015 11:18:13AM 0 points [-]

If you commit to flipping coins and shooting yourself dead as soon as you get a tail, you will also (in the same sense) "find out" that your coin has an astonishingly large bias towards heads. Are you sure this is a good notion of "finding out"?

(This is just the same point as Viliam's last paragraph was making, but it seemed worth trying it from a different angle.)