Upvote this if you would press the button AND you would not be willing to commit quantum suicide EXCEPT when you are particularly desperate and would also consider playing a simple Newtonian Russian Roulette with equivalent payoffs.
I had to add this because in the form NihilCredo specified the options all of them were crazy! I think NihilCredo intended my kind of reasoning to fit into the no matter what option but I could not bring myself to choose it. There are just so many counterexamples I could think of.
Actually, revise that—not pressing the button is merely different to my preferences, not crazy. But both pressing button options do imply craziness.
I think NihilCredo intended my kind of reasoning to fit into the no matter what option but I could not bring myself to choose it. There are just so many counterexamples I could think of.
Yes, I had originally phrased the second option as just “given a sufficiently high payoff”, but I changed it when I spotted the obvious problems with that—except I didn’t alter the complementary option to match.
Could we please delete this exchange now that the poll is fixed?
Upvote this if you would press the button AND you would not be willing to commit quantum suicide EXCEPT when you are particularly desperate and would also consider playing a simple Newtonian Russian Roulette with equivalent payoffs.
I had to add this because in the form NihilCredo specified the options all of them were crazy! I think NihilCredo intended my kind of reasoning to fit into the no matter what option but I could not bring myself to choose it. There are just so many counterexamples I could think of.
Actually, revise that—not pressing the button is merely different to my preferences, not crazy. But both pressing button options do imply craziness.
Yes, I had originally phrased the second option as just “given a sufficiently high payoff”, but I changed it when I spotted the obvious problems with that—except I didn’t alter the complementary option to match.
Could we please delete this exchange now that the poll is fixed?