I’m confused by your last comment—what use would the LHC be in a global economic crisis or nuclear war? I don’t suppose you mean something like “rig the LHC to activate if the market does not recover by date X according to measure Y, and then we will only be able to observe the scenario in which the market does recover” or something like that, do you?
By precommitting to firing up the LHC in difficult moments, assuming firing up the LHC destroys the world, you end up observing only universes where difficult moments don’t happen (at a cost I would describe as “at best ambiguous”).
I’m confused by your last comment—what use would the LHC be in a global economic crisis or nuclear war? I don’t suppose you mean something like “rig the LHC to activate if the market does not recover by date X according to measure Y, and then we will only be able to observe the scenario in which the market does recover” or something like that, do you?
By precommitting to firing up the LHC in difficult moments, assuming firing up the LHC destroys the world, you end up observing only universes where difficult moments don’t happen (at a cost I would describe as “at best ambiguous”).
I think the idea is you only run it if you’re already indifferent to the world being destroyed?