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Comment author: qmotus 28 January 2016 05:06:36PM 0 points [-]

QI messes up the subjective probabilities. If there is simply one world and one "copy" of you, and you have a very, very small probability of surviving some event, you can be practically certain that you won't live to eat breakfast the next day. However, if there are very many copies of you and QI works, you can be certain that you will live. It completely changes what you should, subjectively, expect to experience in such a situation.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 28 January 2016 10:56:58PM 0 points [-]

In no case should you expect to experience not living until the next day. That cannot be experienced, whether QI is true or not.

Comment author: qmotus 29 January 2016 06:19:44AM 0 points [-]

Correct, but in some cases I could expect to not experience anything.