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jacob_cannell comments on I need a protocol for dangerous or disconcerting ideas. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 14 July 2015 04:50:03PM 0 points [-]

There always exists some tiny subset of branches where you survive.

BTW, I don't completely buy the argument - as I mentioned earlier, measure is important and it works out to normality of probability. If my skull is being crushed, most of the branches past that point don't contain me. I care about the whole set, so the fact that I always survive in some tiny rare branches is not much of a consolation.