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11 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 04 May 2016 11:28PM

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Comment author: Dagon 05 May 2016 07:40:28PM 0 points [-]

reshape the world to your liking

is a fair restatement, but doesn't capture MWI and my model of decisions as anthropic measurement rather than universe mutation. Everything possible actually happens; your choices are just a selector/cause of which timeline your observer finds itself in.

Figuring out the truth of election outcomes (your expected experiences conditional on different actions you take and the outcomes that occur) seems fairly important to me. My current estimate on the topic is that my debating or voting will have almost no impact on my future experiences. And getting correction and updates if that is NOT true would be extremely valuable.

Comment author: SquirrelInHell 18 May 2016 02:22:32AM *  0 points [-]

Everything possible actually happens

This statement is vague, but if you mean something broad (i.e. all that you can imagine and more), I certainly don't think this is a consequence of MWI.

Maybe I don't know something, but the statement that "everything possible actually happens" seems to me like a collation between MWI and fairy tales/poor science fiction.

Please correct me if it's me who is ignorant.