Am just thinking about this now, so not high confidence.
I’m thinking a total market cap index of all publicly traded companies in the world—unless some stock exchanges are really sketchy for some reasons (I’m aware “sketchy” is ill-defined).
Also maybe a fraction (10%?) stored in a total market cap of deflationary currencies (decentralized ones I suppose, as for centralized ones it’s generally harder to tell if they will become inflationary) as they will presumably become more in demand, in the short term as the economy might transition to them, but also in the long term as the population grows and so those the demand for currency (although if minds start running faster, I think that would decrease the value of currencies as they would be traded more often).
Maybe worlds in which reanimation is possible is correlated with other technological development, and so that might also inform some investments, but not sure which ones, and that starts adding a lot of complexity, at least while we don’t have large prediction markets.
I’m also thinking those investment don’t need to be liquid at all, and REITs often have a higher return because they are less liquid than stocks (AFAIU); so if this is true, then maybe having a lot of investments in REITs would also be beneficial. (2021-05-08 update: this is also true of other investment vehicles, like loans)
That last bit is interesting. Because, yes, from some hypotheses an instance of you will see revival if in any possible world it happens. Without a ‘god hypothesis’ - where even if it’s not an old man in a bathrobe, something set the simulation engine to this exact universe’s laws—you have to realize that in order for something to exist, everything must exist, eternally. Similarly, the ‘you’ reading this now is one who didn’t die in the other universes before this moment.
Referring to one theory of the universe. It’s nonsense to say that it is slowly degrading to nothing and nothing is the ground state because if this is the true law of nature nothing at all would exist.
So one theory is all possible consistent universes exist which means if it is possible to survive cryo you will experience it. Similar to how our existence as humans is seeing one of the universes where we are possible, we aren’t seeing the others.
Might be a wrong theory it’s just a way to try to make sense of what doesn’t really make any sense.
Am just thinking about this now, so not high confidence.
I’m thinking a total market cap index of all publicly traded companies in the world—unless some stock exchanges are really sketchy for some reasons (I’m aware “sketchy” is ill-defined).
Also maybe a fraction (10%?) stored in a total market cap of deflationary currencies (decentralized ones I suppose, as for centralized ones it’s generally harder to tell if they will become inflationary) as they will presumably become more in demand, in the short term as the economy might transition to them, but also in the long term as the population grows and so those the demand for currency (although if minds start running faster, I think that would decrease the value of currencies as they would be traded more often).
Maybe worlds in which reanimation is possible is correlated with other technological development, and so that might also inform some investments, but not sure which ones, and that starts adding a lot of complexity, at least while we don’t have large prediction markets.
I’m also thinking those investment don’t need to be liquid at all, and REITs often have a higher return because they are less liquid than stocks (AFAIU); so if this is true, then maybe having a lot of investments in REITs would also be beneficial. (2021-05-08 update: this is also true of other investment vehicles, like loans)
That last bit is interesting. Because, yes, from some hypotheses an instance of you will see revival if in any possible world it happens. Without a ‘god hypothesis’ - where even if it’s not an old man in a bathrobe, something set the simulation engine to this exact universe’s laws—you have to realize that in order for something to exist, everything must exist, eternally. Similarly, the ‘you’ reading this now is one who didn’t die in the other universes before this moment.
“in order for something to exist, everything must exist, eternally”
Care to explain why? The rest of your comment I understand.
Referring to one theory of the universe. It’s nonsense to say that it is slowly degrading to nothing and nothing is the ground state because if this is the true law of nature nothing at all would exist. So one theory is all possible consistent universes exist which means if it is possible to survive cryo you will experience it. Similar to how our existence as humans is seeing one of the universes where we are possible, we aren’t seeing the others.
Might be a wrong theory it’s just a way to try to make sense of what doesn’t really make any sense.