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NancyLebovitz comments on Probabilities Small Enough To Ignore: An attack on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 16 September 2015 12:18:52PM 1 point [-]

Some more extreme possibilities on the lifespan problem: Should you figure in the possibility of life extension? The possibility of immortality?

What about Many Worlds? If you count alternate versions of yourself as you, then low probability bets make more sense.