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FeepingCreature comments on False vacuum: the universe playing quantum suicide - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 January 2013 05:04PM

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Comment author: FeepingCreature 10 January 2013 08:27:59PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah but doesn't this expose an inconsistency in your view of quantum suicide? At least there's some really counterintuitive things if you look at it that way - like, that you should refuse to acquire some data, or that if faced with "doom in ten months or doom now" you would prefer the "doom now" - I think any theory that acts so at odds with the rest of reason has to be doing something wrong.

Personally, I simply expect to never find myself in the situation where my doom is inevitable, and it's paid off so far.

If I find myself in the doomed branch, I'll say "yes this sucks for me, but I am merely a negligible fraction of the future that past-me was responsible for, so I still maintain that his decision was the right one".