That's the plot of one of the stories in Colin Bruce's book
"Schroedinger's Rabbits".
One of the problems is that the way the Poweball numbers come up is not
directly quantum randomness. It may be determined by the amplification
of some random quantum events in the past. But how far in the past.
You don't want it to be so far in the past that it can be causally
correlated with your decision to set up the suicide machine. Of course
t'Hooft claims they are all causally determined.
Brent
On 9/13/2019 2:27 PM, John Clark 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.
John K Clark
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