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How did your first friend turn out?
He's still alive, but medicated and still miserable; by his account, only able to think for a few hours each day. MWI is his personal basilisk. For a while last year, he was excited when the Nobelist Gerard 't Hooft was proposing to get quantum field theory from cellular automata, but that was only for very special QFTs, and no-one else has built on those papers so far. Right now he's down because everyone he asks thinks David Wallace (Oxford exponent of MWI) is brilliant. I originally heard from him because of my skepticism about MWI, expressed many times on this site.
Maybe consider introducing him to instrumentalism. Worrying to death about untestables is kind of sad.
Is he still on Less Wrong?
Not really (though I told him about this thread). He spends his time corresponding directly with physicists and philosophers.
Any way for me to contact him?
(Taken to PM.)
Hang on, didn't Everett believe that in the event of death, his consciousness would just follow a stream of events that lead to his not being dead?