On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:35 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/11/2013 12:27 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > I used to participate in the mailing list years ago and this was a > recurring theme -- quantum suicide. There was some anecdote that some > guy actually tried it but fell in love minutes before going through > with it, and that stopped him. I think Russell mentions this in his > book. > > One of the problems is that the execution mechanism must have a > failure rate lower than 1 in 80 million. This is no small engineering > feat when it comes to reliably killing a human -- you may end up like > a non-lottery winning vegetable in some of the universes. > > > The more general objection is that even if it works you've lowered you > measure in the universe. Whether you-now should care about all of you-then > is then the question. In general you do care about you future self(s), but > maybe you're willing to make a trade-off if you're a high-risk gambler type.
There is also the possibility that the meta-me that gets to experience all my possible 1ps also gets to experience everyone else's. In this model there is a gigantic bag of 1p observer moments and all are conscious. Then it becomes more rational to be nice to other people than to win the lottery. Telmo. > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
