There is also a chance that the whole concept is completely confused; for example that "the average living copy of yourself in a thousand years" is a wrong way to predict your most likely personal experience in the future. Instead, the correct approach may be to talk about your typical person-moment in space-time, because there is no reason to privilege the future. I mean, you already know that many of your copies will not have person-moments in far future. And maybe your expected person-moment is plus or minus what you are experiencing now, precisely because you are not immortal.
This sounds interesting, but I don't quite get what you mean by saying that many copies won't have person-moments in the future or how this leads to non-immortality. Can you elaborate?
In general, I agree that estimating these probabilities is very difficult. I suppose the likeliest ways may, in any case, be orders of magnitude more likely than others; meaning that if QI works and, say, resurrection by a future AI or hypercivilization is the likeliest way to live for a hundred million years, the other alternatives may not matter much. But it's hard to say anything even remotely definite about it.
I am confused a lot about this, so maybe what I write here doesn't make sense at all.
I'm trying to take a "timeless view" instead of taking time as something granted that keeps flowing linearly. Why? Essentially, because if you just take time as something that keeps flowing linearly, then in most Everett branches you die, end of story. Taking about "quantum immortality" already means picking selectively the moments in time-space-branches where you exist. So I feel like perhaps we need to pick randomly from all such moments, not merely f...
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