From 9a1b5cb8eff5ee4dd46e998c2c1458dbbad2237a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 20:19:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Edit=20=E2=80=98quantum=5Fimmortality=E2=80=99?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- quantum_immortality.myco | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/quantum_immortality.myco b/quantum_immortality.myco index 34c73b1..722fcd7 100644 --- a/quantum_immortality.myco +++ b/quantum_immortality.myco @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ By a creative interpretation of the [[many worlds interpretation]] of [[quantum mechanics]], all possible (in some sense) things happen (in some sense), though with varying probability measure (whatever this means). Additionally, since you must exist in order to perceive things, the probability of you observing things is in fact their [[conditional probability]] given that you exist (in some sense). If you die (in some sense), you no longer exist, so you can never experience yourself [[dying]] and are thus (subjectively) [[immortal]] (probably). -Proposals to abuse quantum immortality to gather easy-to-verify but hard-to-check information (approximately, solutions to [[NP]] problems) are frequent: however, they are unworkable, even subjectively, since your decisions are also part of the world. These proposals would involve dying in the majority of timelines, so there is much less total probability mass where one lives conditional on deciding to do this, so on average you won't have observed yourself deciding to do this, so you won't. \ No newline at end of file +Proposals to abuse quantum immortality to gather easy-to-verify but hard-to-generate information (approximately, solutions to [[NP]] problems) are frequent: however, they are unworkable, even subjectively, since your decisions are also part of the world. These proposals would involve dying in the majority of timelines, so there is much less total probability mass where one lives conditional on deciding to do this, so on average you won't have observed yourself deciding to do this, so you won't. \ No newline at end of file