Colin Q Bang
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Nice post Mr. Tegmark, ty! Regarding your statement
"...(80%) that NATO's response will be forceful enough to include a non-nuclear military strike against Russia, because key NATO leaders have already made strongly worded statements to this effect"
would you (or can anyone else?) kindly supply direct quotes (please not merely citations of news articles that paraphrase or that quote less than complete sentences) of some such statements? For the ones not cited or quoted, maybe Mr. Tegmark will clarify whether he means key current NATO officials or merely key current officials of NATO member countries, or whether perhaps retired former officials is what was instead meant? Fwiw the reason for my request, besides the... (read more)
In a few places you compare, from a person's perspective, the "fortune" of that person (or what "seems positive for" them), to their fortune if they never existed. How can this mean anything? I don't think that someone/something that (hypothetically) doesn't exist can have a (hypothetical) perspective. (And if they can't even have a perspective, it probably doesn't need to be said that neither can they have a fortune to compare to a fortune arising from a perspective on a (real or hypothetical) existence.
Seems more sensible (and might possibly make a practical difference) to, instead, judge from the perspective of those affected by the person in question. For example, instead of saying "Fortunately for my friend, the priest said yes", saying "Fortunately for me, the priest said yes."