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I've been recently been obsessing over the risks of quantum torment, and in the course of my research downloaded this article: https://philpapers.org/rec/TURFAA-3 Here's a quote: "4.3 Long-term inescapable suffering is possible If death is impossible, someone could be locked into a very bad situation where she can’t die, but also...

I found a website run by an interesting fellow called 'Wild Heretic' and it seems incredibly intricate and comprehensive. I've yet to see any other person argue as well for half so radical a claim. Think of this as an opportunity to examine arguments for highly unpopular views. Wild Heretic...

This post was completely rewritten on July 17th, 2015, 6:10 AM. Comments before that are not necessarily relevant. Assume that our minds really do work the way Unification tells us: what we are experiencing is actually the sum total of every possible universe which produces them. Some universes have more...

I have a talent for reasoning my way into terrifying and harmful conclusions. The first was modal realism as a fourteen-year-old. Of course I did not understand most of its consequences, but I disliked the fact that existence was infinite. It mildly depressed me for a few days. The next...

Dust theory implies that everything outside of my perception is in flux. Your experiences have to find themselves in a world in which they could have conceivably formed. Of course, you exist in every possible world which would produce that mindstate, but some are 'vaster' than others, leading you down...

I haven't come across this particular argument before, so I hope I'm not just rehashing a well-known problem. "The universe displays some very strong signs that it is a simulation. As has been mentioned in some other answers, one way to efficiently achieve a high fidelity simulation is to design...

A self-modifying AI is built to serve humanity. The builders know, of course, that this is much riskier than it seems, because its success would render their own observations extremely rare. To solve the problem, they direct the AI to create billions of simulated humanities in the hope that this...