Actually, after a little more thought, there’s a non-physically-impossible version of this that’s a bit more counterintuitive.
Suppose you’re about to decide what you’ll do with the rest of your life—you have a choice to study the true physical theory of everything, or you have a choice to study the workings of the human mind. You have similar confidence for both that you’ll find success. You calculate that you’ll have slightly higher utility if you do (pick your favorite).
So the question is, do you flip a qubit in order to choose what to do, on the premise that you’d rather “someone out there” study the other thing too?
Doing things this way fixes the fact that Omega is non-quantum-mechanical, so it gives you impossible certainty of the future and current wavefunctions. The fact that this is more counterintuitive suggests a few other approximations we might be making.
Actually, after a little more thought, there’s a non-physically-impossible version of this that’s a bit more counterintuitive.
Suppose you’re about to decide what you’ll do with the rest of your life—you have a choice to study the true physical theory of everything, or you have a choice to study the workings of the human mind. You have similar confidence for both that you’ll find success. You calculate that you’ll have slightly higher utility if you do (pick your favorite).
So the question is, do you flip a qubit in order to choose what to do, on the premise that you’d rather “someone out there” study the other thing too?
Doing things this way fixes the fact that Omega is non-quantum-mechanical, so it gives you impossible certainty of the future and current wavefunctions. The fact that this is more counterintuitive suggests a few other approximations we might be making.