How do you build a quantum suicide machine?

[PeterDonis]

wouldn't the possibility that you implied kinda be inconsistent with anthtropic reasoning - that we are in this branch because we are likely to be in it

Not at all. Anthropic reasoning says we are in this branch because we, as sentient observers, have to be in a branch that can contain sentient observers. But it says nothing at all about how likely such branches are compared with branches that cannot contain sentient observers; it just says that, of course, we won't find ourselves in one of the latter branches.

 

[durant35]

Not at all. Anthropic reasoning says we are in this branch because we, as sentient observers, have to be in a branch that can contain sentient observers. But it says nothing at all about how likely such branches are compared with branches that cannot contain sentient observers; it just says that, of course, we won't find ourselves in one of the latter branches.

You're right. Maybe this is too much digression for the thread, but I've read numerous arguments about typicality of our universe in a "multiverse". Translated to the MWI language that should mean that a right cosmologicak theory would put us (hypotethically of course) in a typical branch. Though I agree with your premise, it seems that this should be prioritized.