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2 Post author: Algernoq 06 December 2015 04:14AM

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Comment author: gjm 07 December 2015 01:44:04PM *  1 point [-]

it's more probable that I'll live forever from the World I experience now

This also explains why you find yourself in a world that has already perfected immortality technology.

... Oh, wait.

[EDITED to add: I see that you sort-of addressed this "... would require a more complicated Universe". But I don't understand that at all. How would it require a more complicated universe?]

Comment author: Algernoq 11 December 2015 06:58:26AM 0 points [-]

It's a flawed argument but if for some reason there was a high complexity penalty to being born in an older Universe then it could be more likely to be born in a younger Universe where immortality technology has not quite been invented yet.