On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 8:13 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:28 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a modest proposal, it's a low tech way to find out once and for >> all if the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is correct, >> and as a side effect make you rich. First you buy one Powerball lottery >> ticket, the next drawing of the winning number is at 11pm tonight. Then >> make a simple machine that will monitor the internet and pull the trigger >> on a 44 magnum aimed at your head at exactly 11.01pm UNLESS yours is the >> winning ticket. If Many Worlds is correct your subjective experience can >> only be that at 11.01pm, despite 80 million to one odds stacked against >> you, a miracle occurs and the gun does not go off and you're rich beyond >> the dreams of avarice. After that as you fly on your private jet to your >> private island you can contemplate the fact that you are the only person in >> the world who knows the true nature of reality and knows it with absolute >> certainty. And it only cost you a few hundred dollars to make the machine, >> the most expensive part being the gun itself. >> >> Of course for every universe you're rich in there are 80 million in which >> your friends watch your head explode, but that's a minor point, your >> consciousness no longer exists in any of those worlds so you never have to >> see the mess; somebody else will have to clean up the thousands of itty >> bitty bits of brain splattered all over the room, it's their problem not >> yours. >> >> > It's been tried: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/90QNXd9Q9bk/vbvGBDB_EssJ > > Jason > Jason, thanks for posting this discussion from times before I joined the 'everything' list. So rolling down the other comments in the discussion, I see that Jacques Mallah actually made a good point, even if in a rather aggressive way. His final comment was: There is only one reason to commit suicide and it is the same as without QM: if your life is so bad that you would rather not exist, commit suicide; otherwise don't. For indeed, in those branches you would cease to exist, while the branches with the lottery winner would gain nothing. The sensible thing in this comment is the observation that with faith in MWI, you are already all of your copies, so you already have won the lottery on that branch. Killing yourself on this branch is not actually going to have any effect (except the non-monetary effect of relieving your current depressive state). Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLS8-W7PfSNBQwkcd7uxo7g_gkL%2BUDWxYRix%2B%3DqQoFfCLw%40mail.gmail.com.
