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Comment author: wedrifid 15 February 2011 01:13:40PM *  0 points [-]

Proposed replacement for parent option:

Upvote this if you would press the button AND you would NOT be willing to attempt a quantum suicide (with a 'perfect' suicide method that will leave you either dead or unharmed), if you were offered a moderately high personal payoff for the version(s) of you that will survive.

I could vote for that.

Comment author: NihilCredo 15 February 2011 01:16:19PM 1 point [-]

Yes, you're right, I should have put it plainly as "would press the button and A" and "would press the button and non-A". Fixed.

Comment author: wedrifid 15 February 2011 01:31:25PM *  1 point [-]

NOTE: Initially proposed alternative to a "no QM no matter what" option. So that it does not interfere with the new improved poll I moved it here and left it only as a reminder that while there are exceptions to the "anyone who chooses to commit quantum suicide fails at life - literally" rule they are nothing to do with perfect implementation.


Upvote this if you would press the button AND you would not be willing to commit quantum suicide EXCEPT when you are particularly desperate and would also consider playing a simple Newtonian Russian Roulette with equivalent payoffs.

I had to add this because in the form NihilCredo specified the options all of them were crazy! I think NihilCredo intended my kind of reasoning to fit into the no matter what option but I could not bring myself to choose it. There are just so many counterexamples I could think of.

Actually, revise that - not pressing the button is merely different to my preferences, not crazy. But both pressing button options do imply craziness.