steven comments on Where Physics Meets Experience - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 April 2008 04:58AM

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Comment author: steven 25 April 2008 03:15:41PM 0 points [-]

Caledonian, ordinarily that would be true, but the point is that in the MWI the number of worlds increases exponentially as a function of entropy, so very soon high-entropy worlds outnumber low-entropy worlds by a factor of (if I'm not mistaken) ten-to-the-power-avogadrillions. As just one example, there should be a lot more Everett worlds where we used up all the fossil fuels than where we didn't. AFAIK that's still true if you consider only non-mangled worlds, but maybe I misunderstood the model and the number of non-mangled worlds actually stays constant under entropy increase.