<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John K Clark</b> <<a href="mailto:jonkc@att.net">jonkc@att.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you are talking about Many Worlds then there is a much simpler way to win<br>the lottery, just make a machine that will pull the trigger on a 44 Magnum<br>aimed at your head the instant it receives information that you have not
<br>won; subjectively you will find that the trigger is never pulled and you<br>always win the lottery. I think the Many Worlds interpretation of Quantum<br>Mechanics could very well be correct, but I wouldn't bet my life on it.
</blockquote><div><br><br>There's an easier, if less immediately lucrative, way to win at gambling if the MWI is correct. You decide on a quick and certain means of suicide, such as a cyanide pill that you can keep in your mouth and bite on if you should so decide. You then place your bet on your game of choice and think the following thought as sincerely as you possibly can: "if I lose, I will kill myself". Most probably, if you lose you'll chicken out and not kill yourself, but there has to be at least a slightly greater chance that you will kill yourself if you lose than if you win. Therefore, after many bets you will more likely find yourself alive in a universe where you have come out ahead. The crazier and more impulsive you are and the closer your game of choice is to being perfectly fair, the better this will work.
<br></div><br></div><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou