Re: Parallel universes and Shroedinger's cat

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 29 1996 - 19:19:07 MST

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> > Then you ran the experiment again, umpteen times, and observed
> >that you are still alive. If the many-worlds theory is true, you will
> >always survive in one of the "new" universes, with knowledge of your
> >history of good luck.
> Something like this happens to the protagonist in Greg Egan's terrific first
> novel QUARANTINE.

Not "Permutation City"? As I recall, that's exactly what happened.

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