This is essentially a form of the quantum suicide argument. I would not try
this myself, for MWI is as far as I can see just an auxiliary set of
physical axioms one can work with in various ways. I have no idea whether
there really are 10^{200} versions of me splashed across the type III
multiverse.
LC
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 4:28:14 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote:
>
> I have a modest proposal, it's a low tech way to find out once and for all
> if the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is correct, and as
> a side effect make you rich. First you buy one Powerball lottery ticket,
> the next drawing of the winning number is at 11pm tonight. Then make a
> simple machine that will monitor the internet and pull the trigger on a 44
> magnum aimed at your head at exactly 11.01pm UNLESS yours is the winning
> ticket. If Many Worlds is correct your subjective experience can only be
> that at 11.01pm, despite 80 million to one odds stacked against you, a
> miracle occurs and the gun does not go off and you're rich beyond the
> dreams of avarice. After that as you fly on your private jet to your
> private island you can contemplate the fact that you are the only person in
> the world who knows the true nature of reality and knows it with absolute
> certainty. And it only cost you a few hundred dollars to make the machine,
> the most expensive part being the gun itself.
>
> Of course for every universe you're rich in there are 80 million in which
> your friends watch your head explode, but that's a minor point, your
> consciousness no longer exists in any of those worlds so you never have to
> see the mess; somebody else will have to clean up the thousands of itty
> bitty bits of brain splattered all over the room, it's their problem not
> yours.
>
> John K Clark
>
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