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I guess it depends. Maybe there are worlds where, if you flipped wrong, humanity all dies horribly. People alive in those worlds are much more likely to see ru

I guess it depends. Maybe there are worlds where, if you flipped wrong, humanity all dies horribly. People alive in those worlds are much more likely to see runs of millions of flips than people alive in worlds where that's not true. If you see a million heads, you might start to worry that you're in one of those very strange worlds (where your survival depends upon those flips). Maybe there are exponentially more worlds where humanity's survival depends on flipping heads then there are worlds where you just randomly got a million heads. The other way things might get weird is if you have a run of, say, extremely near misses towards nuclear apocalypse. The more near misses, the more history has to appear to contort to avoid an apocalypse. If you have a bunch of those in your history, it's a bad sign- it means that your future is likely to involve either 1) an apocalypse or 2) an extremely weird avoidance of one, that is basically totally unpredictable. Maybe next time a cosmic ray will zap the guy giving the launch order. That is, if you find yourself in universe with a weird history that's getting weirder, you might have reason to believe that that weirdness is actually less weird than nonexistence and things will keep getting weirder.

noduerme 4y ago
>> If you see a million heads, you might start to worry that you're in one of those very strange worlds (where your survival depends upon those flips) I'm already in a world where even a slight wobble in my planet's orbit, or any asteroid changing course by a few inches per hour over the past million years, would have prevented my existence. Then in the last 100 years we've been to the brink of nuclear annihilation at least three times... and shouldn't have survived. And it's still getting weirder. My fear once I realized this about 20 years ago was that I'd end up alone as the last living being on earth. And no matter how many cigarettes I smoke, it seems everyone else dies around me...

noduerme 4y ago

>> If you see a million heads, you might start to worry that you're in one of those very strange worlds (where your survival depends upon those flips) I'm already in a world where even a slight wobble in my planet's orbit, or any asteroid changing course by a few inches per hour over the past million years, would have prevented my existence. Then in the last 100 years we've been to the brink of nuclear annihilation at least three times... and shouldn't have survived. And it's still getting weirder. My fear once I realized this about 20 years ago was that I'd end up alone as the last living being on earth. And no matter how many cigarettes I smoke, it seems everyone else dies around me...