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Lumifer comments on The map of quantum (big world) immortality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 January 2016 04:40:07PM 0 points [-]

I understand QI as related to the Anthropic Principal. The point is that you will tend to find yourself observing things, which implies that there is an effectively immortal version of you somewhere in probability space.

The Anthropic Principle does not imply immortality. It basically says that you will not observe a world in which you don't exist, but it says nothing about you continuing to exist forever in time.