Algernoq comments on timeless quantum immortality - Less Wrong Discussion
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The "Wigner's Friend" experiment has some interesting examples that physicists already thought about.
I'll find out in about 100 years.
If you commit to flipping coins and shooting yourself dead as soon as you get a tail, you will also (in the same sense) "find out" that your coin has an astonishingly large bias towards heads. Are you sure this is a good notion of "finding out"?
(This is just the same point as Viliam's last paragraph was making, but it seemed worth trying it from a different angle.)