From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 11:28:05 MST
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> Wrote:
>
> >I once found many-world hypotheses very depressing
>
> I don't really see why. It's true that in a infinite number of
> universes hideous things beyond description happen to you, but it is
> equally true that in a infinite number of universes wonderful things
> beyond imagining happen to you; it seems to me the most logical
> emotional state regarding parallel universes should be neutral.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
I agree with John's words, basically, but I would re-write them as
follows:
I don't really see why. It's true that in an infinite number of
universes hideous things beyond description happen to *other people
similar
to you*, but it is equally true that in an infinite number of universes
wonderful things beyond imagining happen to *other people similar to
you*.
It seems to me the most logical emotional state regarding parallel
universes
should be neutral, because those other *similar* universes aren't really
about
*your life* in the first place. They're only about the lives of people
who
are to various degrees *similar to you*. If they were actually about
*you*
then the events in question would be happening here in *this* universe,
not in some other.
-gts
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