> On 18 Sep 2019, at 00:27, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:25 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> On 13 Sep 2019, at 23:27, John Clark <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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. > > > The problem is that the probability is higher to get mad and believe you did > get the winning lottery, when the bullet did not kill you. But in principle > this works, yet, not in any practical sense. Because il all worlds where the > bullet go through your brain, you survive there too. You would need a > self-annihilating deice which is infallible, and that cannot exist. We > survive no matter what. Perfect self-annihilation works only in thought > experience, and are used only in theoretical reasoning. > > > Perhaps it could work for an uploaded brain. Pause the VM in the case your > numbers don't come up. But then you need to ensure no one in that branch > ever unpauses it, which is the real difficulty.
Even the impossibility I think. The branches made up a tree of computations with all inputs possible. So, unless you have tools capable of making a number disappear, you will always feel like if someone unpaused it from your personal perspective. At least with M, with QM, it is perhaps slightly less obvious ... Bruno > > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhDKKNq%3DfNb8Q43UO-S2kvw2B64oaKS979oX0STe0sbAA%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhDKKNq%3DfNb8Q43UO-S2kvw2B64oaKS979oX0STe0sbAA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/42CB6F01-E08F-4AB7-AF8A-70A5573640DE%40ulb.ac.be.
