[ExI] Many Worlds (was: A Simulation Argument)

[Damien Broderick]

At 05:54 PM 1/12/2008 -0800, Lee wrote:

>If it weren't for the "weird correlation", then there would actually be
>four universes---inhabited respectively by the teams A-you & A-him,
>A-you & B-him, B-you & A-him, and B-you & B-him---and each
>such worthy would weep "alas there is no correlation between
>what happens here and what happens there, our entanglementation
>did fail".  But when entanglement succeeds, there are just the two
>universes, and everyone celebrates the wonderous correlation,
>except for the two pairs of unfortunates who didn't get any runtime,
>Messrs. A-you & B-him and Messrs. B-you & A-him.

This certainly accords with my own intuition, and I find no 
principled reason why "entanglement" isn't just an improbable 
illusion in the MWI. What prevents the "unfortunates" from existing?

Damien Broderick