It's a fun thought experiment under the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Even at an infinitesimally low chance of getting the billion dollars, i

It's a fun thought experiment under the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Even at an infinitesimally low chance of getting the billion dollars, if the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true, you could argue that it is worth it from a selfish perspective. In all the worlds where you get the money, your life is improved. In all the worlds where you don't, well, you're dead, so you don't really care. Obviously, this doesn't take into account the impacts to everyone else in the worlds where you died.