So if you find you ARE that friend, presumably you’d have no fear of stepping in front of that gun barrel yourself for a few million flips right afterwards. I mean it’s pretty convincing proof. Then you get to see the confusion in each other’s face!
Though you’re both more likely to end up mopping your friend’s blood of the floor.
On the whole, I think a good friend probably doesn’t let a friend test the Quantum Theory of Immortality.
So if you find you ARE that friend, presumably you’d have no fear of stepping in front
of that gun barrel yourself for a few million flips right afterwards.
I don’t believe so. While the person who underwent the experiment has a completely convincing proof of MWI+QTI, the friend doesn’t. What he saw is just as unlikely under MWI as it is under Copenhagen.
If you didn’t believe in MWI+QTI (i.e. had very low priors for), and you saw your friend claim to do a billion coin flips and not get shot, then even if you “refuse” to significantly increase your belief in MWI+QTI, wouldn’t you at least increase your belief in the possibility that the gun is broken, and thus would not shoot you?
So if you find you ARE that friend, presumably you’d have no fear of stepping in front of that gun barrel yourself for a few million flips right afterwards. I mean it’s pretty convincing proof. Then you get to see the confusion in each other’s face!
Though you’re both more likely to end up mopping your friend’s blood of the floor.
On the whole, I think a good friend probably doesn’t let a friend test the Quantum Theory of Immortality.
Even if QTI is true, a good friend doesn’t test it, for fear of leaving behind (many copies of) a bereaved friend.
I don’t believe so. While the person who underwent the experiment has a completely convincing proof of MWI+QTI, the friend doesn’t. What he saw is just as unlikely under MWI as it is under Copenhagen.
If you didn’t believe in MWI+QTI (i.e. had very low priors for), and you saw your friend claim to do a billion coin flips and not get shot, then even if you “refuse” to significantly increase your belief in MWI+QTI, wouldn’t you at least increase your belief in the possibility that the gun is broken, and thus would not shoot you?
I would assume that the gun was broken and thus would not shoot me.