Z._M._Davis comments on When (Not) To Use Probabilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Z._M._Davis 23 July 2008 03:32:00PM 1 point [-]

"The lottery would definately destroy worlds, with as many deaths as killing over six thousand people in each Everett branch."

We speak so casually about interpreting probabilities as frequencies across the many worlds, but I would suggest we need a rigorous treatment of what those other worlds are proportionally like before confidently doing so. (Cf. mine and Hal's commments in the June Open Thread.)