If one of your future selves will see red, and one of your future selves will see green, then (it seems) you should anticipate seeing red or green when you wake up with 50% probability.
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Program your computational environment to, if you win, make a trillion copies of yourself, and wake them up for ten seconds, long enough to experience winning the lottery. Then suspend the programs, merge them again, and start the result. If you don’t win the lottery, then just wake up automatically.
No. You won’t see yourself winning the lottery when you wake up.
There is the real you. You may create copies of yourself, but they are still just copies.
Let’s suppose Eliezer starts this experiment: the universe splits into 10,000,000 copies, and in one of them he wins and creates a trillion copies of himself.
So, there are 10,000,000 actual Eliezers — most of whom are in universes where he didn’t win — but there are also a huge number of copies of the winning Eliezer.
Or, if Eliezer’s consciousness continues only into one future universe and doesn’t somehow split 10,000,000 ways, then in most of the universes where his consciousness could go, he didn’t win the lottery.
Since your clones are not you, and you don’t feel what your clones feel, I don’t think the number of clones created really matters.
You might think that there could be many versions of you sharing your consciousness — that they are all “you” — but consciousness is a result of physical processes. So I don’t think it can teleport from one dimension to another. Therefore, since most of the real/original Eliezers exist in universes where he lost, he would wake up to find that he lost.
No. You won’t see yourself winning the lottery when you wake up.
There is the real you. You may create copies of yourself, but they are still just copies.
Let’s suppose Eliezer starts this experiment: the universe splits into 10,000,000 copies, and in one of them he wins and creates a trillion copies of himself.
So, there are 10,000,000 actual Eliezers — most of whom are in universes where he didn’t win — but there are also a huge number of copies of the winning Eliezer.
Or, if Eliezer’s consciousness continues only into one future universe and doesn’t somehow split 10,000,000 ways, then in most of the universes where his consciousness could go, he didn’t win the lottery.
Since your clones are not you, and you don’t feel what your clones feel, I don’t think the number of clones created really matters.
You might think that there could be many versions of you sharing your consciousness — that they are all “you” — but consciousness is a result of physical processes. So I don’t think it can teleport from one dimension to another. Therefore, since most of the real/original Eliezers exist in universes where he lost, he would wake up to find that he lost.