The MWI version of the Murphy’s law states: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, at least in some of the worlds”.
Specifically, given that an attempted suicide is a classical event, the number of “quantum splits” required for it to happen is at least of the order of the Avogadro’s number. There is no way to create a classical device reliable enough to ensure the odds of its malfunction are less than 1:10^23.
On the bright side, you can probably decrease the odds of malfunction to that of the background noise, i.e. your device would be as unlikely to malfunction as to be destroyed by a stray meteor strike, or by any other of the improbable events plaguing Wile E. Coyote.
No such thing as foolproof.
The MWI version of the Murphy’s law states: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, at least in some of the worlds”.
Specifically, given that an attempted suicide is a classical event, the number of “quantum splits” required for it to happen is at least of the order of the Avogadro’s number. There is no way to create a classical device reliable enough to ensure the odds of its malfunction are less than 1:10^23.
On the bright side, you can probably decrease the odds of malfunction to that of the background noise, i.e. your device would be as unlikely to malfunction as to be destroyed by a stray meteor strike, or by any other of the improbable events plaguing Wile E. Coyote.
Yes. This is why thinking about it at all is probably too much—I keep coming up with ways it could go horribly wrong.