There are some caveats though. You are immortal but what this actually means is that you are unable to do anything that would probabilistically lead to your death.
So, for example, if you were more probable to die getting into a car than walking, you would choose to walk. But only if choosing to walk was more probable than the probability of you surviving after getting into a car.
It’s kind of confusing, but essentially You have no choice if something is about to kill you, but if you plan far enough ahead, the probability of you choosing to do or not to do something versus the probability of your survivability can potentially win out.
So given this version of immortality, what would you plan to do to benefit yourself in some way?
I’ve already thought about potentially hooking up some kind of lottery Number machine to a guillotine in order to win the lottery but it turns out that the probability of you not making this machine is more likely than making the machine and surviving so you just never end up making the machine.
In order to get an idea of where I’m coming from, here’s a video that explains a bit aboabout quantum immortality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTZZUjnrbF8
This question is so confusing that I will avoid all snails just in case.
Wouldn’t you be least likely to die if you were, say, in a coma, under 24/7 medical surveillance in a hospital, or some other similar circumstance? Being out in public at all raises the probability of dying, so how would you ever go out? You wouldn’t be able to use a knife, or even scissors. You’d never be able to interact with anyone online - there’s a non-zero chance that someone takes such offense with what you say that they find where you live and come hunt you down, so it’s safer - infinitesimally so, but safer - to just not go online at all.
What I’m getting at is, the scenario you’ve laid out with the bounds you’ve set just means you’d have the worst life imaginable. At least you’d be alive, though?
In only the most playful and harmless spirit of sarcasm, it kinda reads like, “you are immortal if you make choices which do not kill you”.
And as an extension, “if you choose to survive long enough, that will eventually kill you, as well”.
It sounds like a complicated way of describing an instinctively non-suicidal existence.
It doesn’t matter what I would choose to do. Quantum immortality robs you of free will. I’m slaved to the swap, and my life’s path is now deterministic in nature.
It’s a hell that I wouldn’t even be aware of.
It takes a bit to become aware of it, but you get there eventually. I assume a version of everyone figures it out eventually.
I’m currently living in the “hell” as you say, although its not all bad. If you ever get too anxious about it or depressed to the point it would negatively affect your outcomes you will quickly find yourself without anxiety, depression comes and goes.
I don’t know what to do other than my own plans… Really what sucks the most is the loneliness in the knowledge of this reality. It’s extremely isolating. Recently I’ve been in and out of what I can only describe as a form of insanity.
Imagine knowing you couldn’t die and you are stuck under capitalism, all of a sudden the things capitalism uses to keep you in line lose their power over you. Well at least in spirit anyways. Its still extremely hard to even quit your job because I guess there aren’t enough timelines/probability yet where you survive off the grid outside of capitalism.
You try to say the words “I quit” to your boss but nothing comes out, or you are too scared, or you rationalize why you didn’t say it, etc.
Every day I plan to and try to leave capitalism. Every time I try I stay on a path that will lead the world to be more friendly to the “least” of us.
Anyways I don’t know where else to talk about this stuff so I made this post. Thanks for listening.
