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Lumifer comments on A rational approach to the issue of permanent death-prevention - Less Wrong Discussion

-4 Post author: Nanashi 11 February 2015 12:22PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 11 February 2015 04:59:01PM 1 point [-]

So "infinite universes" does not imply a guarantee that possibility X will occur.

I think MWI does guarantee that in some worlds the man will fall off the cliff.

Comment author: Nanashi 11 February 2015 05:08:39PM 0 points [-]

That's very true. In that regard the Man on the Cliff probably wasn't the best example. It was meant to show that infinite iterations does not guarantee an infinite possibility set or that all possibilities will be realized. So in this context, the MWI doesn't guarantee that any scenario you can envision is happening in an alternate world.