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JoshuaZ comments on [LINK] Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 14 October 2011 08:28:54PM 1 point [-]

You are right. It isn't as obvious as I thought. The rough thought process was that we know that very rarely people on occasion do due the first two in response to diseases and terrible tragedies. But I wasn't thinking about the issue that I don't have a good estimate for what fraction of strokes and similar events are caused by unlikely quantum events. Without a better idea of how those numbers stand and a comparison for how much quantum dice rolling would be required for Jobs to have decided to become a monk I can't tell. I do suspect that the monk thing is more likely because Jobs was a member of a religious tradition that actually did that sort of thing. But without a lot more thinking this isn't much more than a vague intuition.

Comment author: Nisan 14 October 2011 08:37:09PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I have a lot of uncertainty in this domain too.