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I agree. I think quantum immortality is real, but even if I was 100% confident, I don't see a clear way to take advantage of it beyond having a long-term outlook. If you did want to build a suicide machine, it better be perfect. If you are trying to win the lottery with say 1:10^9 odds, your machine better have less than a 1:10^18 chance of seriously injuring you but not killing you. If you are capable of building su…
This so much! The fact is, we're all already exploiting it all the time. By existing in the reality where you decide not to try quantum immortality, you open your future life up to tons of possibilities. The moment you pick up the gun to kill yourself, you already are on a path limited to "puts the gun down" "shoots self, injured but survives" and "dead". Once pulling the trigger, quantum immortality will 'save' you,…
I mean, the probability of a human with genes and experiences like me is astronomically small. Even the probability of existence of humanity (and nonexistence of aliens that would wipe us out) is quite small.
But the multiverse is large, and here we are, and here I am.