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It isn't about probability at all. You live in the universe where you will survive maximally. That is fundimentally an unlikely state. You might have started in
by blamestross 4y ago
It isn't about probability at all. You live in the universe where you will survive maximally. That is fundimentally an unlikely state. You might have started in a "normalish" mainline universe, but you can't stay there and live "forever" too.
You don't get to start your quantum imortality path today, you were born on it the moment you first observed, and you are doomed to exist for the entire length of whatever the maximal path is.
Quantum imortality is existential horror fodder.
- blamestross 4y agoAnd if you can make consistent enough deathtraps you can perform any computation in it's validation time.
- noduerme 4y agoone sign for me that this may be true is that I invented the concept on my own decades ago and have watched it take over the public consciousness. I might just be living with other survivors who are also starting to catch on. On the other hand it's about as solipsistic as you can get...
- layer8 4y agoThe idea is obvious enough that a lot of people are coming up with it on their own once they learn about Many-Worlds.
- blamestross 4y agoIt's also fundimentally untestible. Makes for a wonderful psudoreligon.