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Strilanc comments on What false beliefs have you held and why were you wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Strilanc 17 October 2014 07:14:48PM 4 points [-]

Anthropomorphically forcing the world to have particular laws of physics by more effectively killing yourself if it doesn't seems... counter-productive to maximizing how much you know about the world. I'm also not sure how you can avoid disproving MWI by simply going to sleep, if you're going to accept that sort of evidence.

(Plus quantum suicide only has to keep you on the border of death. You can still end up as an eternally suffering almost-dying mentally broken husk of a being. In fact, those outcomes are probably far more likely than the ones where twenty guns misfire twenty times in a row.)

Comment author: DanielLC 18 October 2014 01:03:41AM 0 points [-]

In fact, those outcomes are probably far more likely than the ones where twenty guns misfire twenty times in a row.

It's quite a bit less likely, but if quantum immortality changes the past (when you're on the border of life and death, it's clear the gun didn't misfire), then it would just keep you from running the experiment in the first place.