Gurkenglas comments on timeless quantum immortality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gurkenglas 13 December 2015 12:47:15PM -1 points [-]

Here's how I predict your setup to work, and shame on you for chickening out:

http://sketchtoy.com/66313589

You start doing the experiment, you flip four coins, 15/16 of you memorize a sequence, 15*32 of you memorized pairwise probably different sequences. In the end, you have a probability of 15/16 to find yourself having memorized a sequence. If QI works and half of you who find a tails in a first four coins commit suicide, start-experiment-you only has a 15/17 chance to find themselves having found tails and failed to kill themselves.

Comment author: solipsist 13 December 2015 03:27:01PM 0 points [-]

What do you mean by "commit suicide" here? Memorize the results of 5 more coins?

Comment author: Gurkenglas 13 December 2015 03:36:21PM 1 point [-]

No, that would do nothing to the anthropic weights of each subtree. I meant ending your life as part of the thought experiment. Why would memorizing numbers do anything special?