On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I take a break from the god-wars to propose an idea that I have been > thinking about. This is probably both silly and unoriginal, but here > it goes... > > If we assume the MWI, isn't it the case that we should expect the > world to become weirder as we get older? My reasoning is simple: the > older you are, the lower your measure, the more specific events have > to "conspire" to keep you alive. As this specificity accumulates, it > increasingly bias the possible worlds. > > One could even use a chart like the one below to predict where "the > weirdening" would accelerate. Of course this is not something that can > be directly measured, but still fun to think about. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_table#/media/File:Data_ > from_National_Vital_Statistics_Report_tPx.png > > Do you guys think this idea has any merit? > > Regarding the season, my wishes for you all: live long and prosper! > Telmo. > > I think Max Tegmark's "Our Mathematical Universe" has a section on this talking about what strange things you might expect to see in an iterated quantum suicide experiment, from power outages to asteroid impacts. https://books.google.com/books?id=FSMUAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=our%20mathematical%20universe&pg=PT412#v=onepage&q=asteroid&f=false Jason -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
