Believers? What sort of belief do you mean? I believe it works. But I also think it’s a terrible idea. 90% chance of me being dead. 90% of quantum-goo me being dead. Whatever.
That reminds me of the movie version of The Prestige, where the Hugh Jackman character perngrf graf bs pbcvrf bs uvzfrys juvyr cresbezvat n gryrcbegngvba gevpx, ohg rafherf gung bar bs gurz qvrf rnpu gvzr. Ng gur raq ur vf xvyyrq, juvpu ur pbhyq rnfvyl unir ceriragrq ol nyybjvat n srj pbcvrf gb yvir.
So yes, let’s not be profligate with our probability space.
Which would be relevant if we were considering copies. We aren’t. It’s us. Just us.
We are considering giving ourselves a significant chance of being dead. If Sfor’s (rather well presented) explanations and accompanying skull imagery are not sufficient to demonstrate that this is a bad thing, it may help to substitute death for, perhaps, a 9⁄10 quantum determined chance of being given bad arthritis in our right knee. We can expect a 90% of experiencing mild chronic pain after the quantum dice are rolled and a 10% chance of experiencing the more desirable outcome. Then, we can decide whether we prefer being put to death to a sore knee.
The pain is real pain. The death is real death. They don’t stop being bad things just because quantum mechanics is confusing.
If many-worlds quantum uncertainty leads you to make different decisions than you would when exposed to other kinds of uncertainty then it is probably far safer to assume quantum collapse. Sure, it may make you look silly and your decision making would be somewhat complicated by the extra complexity in your model. But at least you’ll refrain from doing anything stupid.
Believers? What sort of belief do you mean? I believe it works. But I also think it’s a terrible idea. 90% chance of me being dead. 90% of quantum-goo me being dead. Whatever.
That reminds me of the movie version of The Prestige, where the Hugh Jackman character perngrf graf bs pbcvrf bs uvzfrys juvyr cresbezvat n gryrcbegngvba gevpx, ohg rafherf gung bar bs gurz qvrf rnpu gvzr. Ng gur raq ur vf xvyyrq, juvpu ur pbhyq rnfvyl unir ceriragrq ol nyybjvat n srj pbcvrf gb yvir.
So yes, let’s not be profligate with our probability space.
What could “being me being dead” possibly mean?
Thanks, edited.
Quantum-goo maximization. Hmmm…
I remember reading some very convincing arguments of Eliezer why filling the multiverse with our copies is a wrong objective.
Which would be relevant if we were considering copies. We aren’t. It’s us. Just us.
We are considering giving ourselves a significant chance of being dead. If Sfor’s (rather well presented) explanations and accompanying skull imagery are not sufficient to demonstrate that this is a bad thing, it may help to substitute death for, perhaps, a 9⁄10 quantum determined chance of being given bad arthritis in our right knee. We can expect a 90% of experiencing mild chronic pain after the quantum dice are rolled and a 10% chance of experiencing the more desirable outcome. Then, we can decide whether we prefer being put to death to a sore knee.
The pain is real pain. The death is real death. They don’t stop being bad things just because quantum mechanics is confusing.
If many-worlds quantum uncertainty leads you to make different decisions than you would when exposed to other kinds of uncertainty then it is probably far safer to assume quantum collapse. Sure, it may make you look silly and your decision making would be somewhat complicated by the extra complexity in your model. But at least you’ll refrain from doing anything stupid.