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Comment author: gwern 06 July 2012 06:51:30PM 4 points [-]

What were they going to do with it?

Comment author: DaFranker 06 July 2012 06:56:35PM *  16 points [-]

From past experience working in insurance companies, my first guess would be:

Creating clones and spreading them throughout the multiverse to run a battery of tests for risk-susceptibility in a spacetime isolation bubble, and then producing a premium inversely proportional to the expected life-profitability of the clones studied. With typos in the stats and compound rounding errors (always rounding upwards).

Comment author: gwern 06 July 2012 07:01:37PM 5 points [-]

That sounds fair enough; as long as the premiums are accurate.

Comment author: Alicorn 06 July 2012 07:10:47PM 3 points [-]

You know, I don't even remember? There was nothing remotely plausible that I was going to object to. I just objected on principle to not being told.