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Recently I read Wei Dai's "What Are Probabilities, Anyway?" post, and just wanted to see if the LessWrong community has now reached a consensus on the interpretation of probability. I am of the impression that most LWers endorse multiverse theories, whether it be the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics or...

[Epistemic Status: rambly and exploratory, hoping for some serious discussion] It's 2030, the AGI takeoff ended badly and humanity is wiped out by a misaligned AGI. You die. The end. The end? The above is a cliché many of us have in mind when discussing scenarios where death is involved....

In the Many-Worlds Interpretation, the amplitude of the wave function is seen as describing the "measure of existence". We can tell the existence measure of potential future Everett branches, but can we, even in principle, know the measure of existence for counterfactual branches? E.g. the measure of existence of an...

Say you are about to flip a quantum coin, and the coin has an equal probability of coming up heads or tails. If it comes up heads, a machine creates 1,000 simulations of you before flipping the coin (with the same subjective experience so that you cannot tell if you...

Acausal trade is speculated to be possible across a multiverse, but why would any rational individuals want to do this if the multiverse is deterministic? The reality measure occupied by all of the branches of the multiverse are pre-determined and causally independent from each other, so no matter what you...

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