Living in Many Worlds

18 Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 June 2008 02:24AM

Followup toMany Worlds, One Best Guess

Some commenters have recently expressed disturbance at the thought of constantly splitting into zillions of other people, as is the straightforward and unavoidable prediction of quantum mechanics.

Others have confessed themselves unclear as to the implications of many-worlds for planning:  If you decide to buckle your seat belt in this world, does that increase the chance of another self unbuckling their seat belt?  Are you being selfish at their expense?

Just remember Egan's Law:  It all adds up to normality.

(After Greg Egan, in Quarantine.)

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