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qmotus comments on Rationality Reading Group: Part S: Quantum Physics and Many Worlds - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Gram_Stone 28 January 2016 01:18AM

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Comment author: qmotus 29 January 2016 05:17:19PM 1 point [-]

As the summary of "Living in Many Worlds" says, Eliezer thinks that MWI doesn't have (almost) any practical implications. Is this really true? Doesn't the quantum suicide thought experiment and the type of immortality implied by it (discussed here most recently) mean that it does have practical and philosophical implications?