On 12/27/2016 3:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
<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
The self-selection of survival might evince unusual events that saved
you from death, but other events, not related to self-selection, should
show the same statistics.
Brent
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