[ExI] Let's play What If.

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Wed Oct 27 04:18:06 UTC 2010


On 10/26/2010 11:04 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

> Under a many worlds view, a 1/million probability of being tortured
> amounts to you being duplicated (at least) a million times and
> 1/million of those copies being tortured. From my selfish point of
> view that is subjectively the same as the single world case: I will
> find myself as one, and only one, of the copies

No you won't. You're changing the rules. If there are a million copies 
to be made, you remain the original instance who was there all along and 
can have no risk of being tortured. Well, that's what you told us.



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