Maybe later I’ll do a post about why you shouldn’t panic about the Big World. You shouldn’t be drawing many epistemic implications from it, let alone moral implications. As Greg Egan put it, “It all adds up to normality.” Indeed, I sometimes think of this as Egan’s Law.
While I’m not currently panicking about it, I’d be very interested in reading that explanation. It currently seems to me that there should be certain implications, e.g. in Quantum suicide experiments. If mangled worlds says that the entity perfoming such an experiment should not expect to survive many iterations, that doesn’t solve the space-like version of the issue: Some of the person’s alternate-selves on far away alternate-earths would be prevented from carrying out their plan by weird stuff (TM) coming in from space at just the right time.
Hopefully Anonymous asked:
10^(10^29) (is this different than 10^30?)
It’s different by a factor of roughly 10^(10^29). Strictly speaking the factor is 10^(10^29-30), but making that distinction isn’t much more meaningful than distinguishing between metres and lightyears at those distances.
Hopefully Anonymous asked:
It’s different by a factor of roughly 10^(10^29). Strictly speaking the factor is 10^(10^29-30), but making that distinction isn’t much more meaningful than distinguishing between metres and lightyears at those distances.