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Morendil comments on Forked Russian Roulette and Anticipation of Survival - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 06 April 2012 06:07:39AM 9 points [-]

The person that anticipates surviving just walks through and comes away $1000 richer.

No; a person walks out, who has the memories of the person who walked in, plus the memories of winning ten duels to the death against a copy of themselves. But they don't have the memories of being killed by a copy of themselves, even though there were ten persons who experienced just that.

But if we delete our memory of what just happened when exiting the black boxes, and the boxes themselves, then the resulting universes would be indistinguishable!

If an alien civilization on the other side of the galaxy gets completely destroyed by a supernova, but humans never know about it, does that mean that nothing bad happened?

Comment author: Morendil 06 April 2012 06:49:12AM 0 points [-]

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around, does it make a sound?

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 06 April 2012 07:19:49AM 1 point [-]

But someone was around to see it happen - everyone in the destroyed civilization.

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