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Comment author: [deleted] 19 March 2014 06:43:59PM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 March 2014 06:49:49PM 0 points [-]

it has some consequences on my personal experience of the world that I will probably see in some time, given that it's actually true.

What might these consequences be?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 March 2014 06:55:22PM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 March 2014 07:12:33PM 1 point [-]

I don't think that's how MWI works.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 March 2014 07:16:02PM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 March 2014 07:27:39PM 1 point [-]

So I can kill myself without worrying about some nasty existential horror shit, if needs be? Because that's really all I wanted to know and LW seems like the only place that would take a query like this seriously

Does not follow. MWI is orthogonal to "some nasty existential horror shit", it doesn't provide evidence either for or against your worries.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 March 2014 07:32:24PM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 March 2014 07:37:34PM 1 point [-]

I have no idea what do you worry about, but according to our current understanding in this life there is no detectable difference between a Copenhagen world and an Everett world. As to the afterlife, all bets are off -- contemporary physics can't help you there.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 March 2014 07:42:04PM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 March 2014 07:46:00PM *  1 point [-]

Trying to understand quantum physics on the basis of web comics doesn't strike me as a useful. The lesson you should draw from that comic is that standing near a nuclear bomb when it explodes is a bad idea.

What do you mean by the afterlife?

Whatever happens to you after you die.

Comment author: shminux 19 March 2014 06:54:19PM *  -1 points [-]

Quantum immortality is based on MWI, which is designed explicitly to match the standard "shut up and calculate" approach to QM, which means that it cannot have any measurable effects outside the standard framework, where "Everett branches" are known as "possible outcomes". If you expect different consequences for your personal experience in the two pictures, you probably do not understand MWI.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 March 2014 06:59:49PM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: shminux 19 March 2014 08:09:36PM -1 points [-]

Blanking your comments before retracting them? To hide changing your mind after learning stuff?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 March 2014 08:17:39PM *  0 points [-]

No, now that I got a clear picture of this issue I will delete this account among other things. Sorry for bothering you.

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