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Have you heard of Max Tegmark's quantum suicide argument? If you believe it sufficiently, well, buy a lottery ticket and cyanide, and really commit yourself to
by cscheid 13y ago
Have you heard of Max Tegmark's quantum suicide argument? If you believe it sufficiently, well, buy a lottery ticket and cyanide, and really commit yourself to it :)
(No, please, do NOT do this.)
- ryan-c 13y agoLet us for a moment, assume that the quantum suicide argument is correct. It is probably more likely that you will somehow survive the cyanide with life-long debilitating effects than for you to actually win the lottery.
- qu4z-2 13y agoHah, that's very cool. I came up with this as an idea for a short story a couple of days ago (except slightly more drastically, as it involved the complete annihilation of humanity on a failure condition, allowing the practitioner to drag everyone else with him into his preferred outcome-world). I'm simultaneously pleased and displeased that someone's already given it a lot of thought.