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What would you do to make your life better if you discovered you were immortal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by crazyminner@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In my time studying this, I have figured one thing out though. It's easier to choose not to do something and have the outcome happen than the other way around.

For example: Say I want the world to become a better place that's friendlier to homeless people( Really, what I mean is more friendly to the most vulnerable among us.). (More Communist/Anarchist hopefully)

So what I did is I decided that I'm never going to get a job after my current one Unless it's a communist or anarchist one.

What I've found is that it's more likely for the whole world to change, to warp itself around, keeping me alive. Then for me to just randomly have all my muscles spasm in a way to make and submit a resume to apply for a job, and then continue to go to that job.(Essentially it's more likely for the world to change than for the million monkeys to type out Shakespeare.) In theory, eventually this would make the world a better place. If I'm immortal and I become the most vulnerable among us, then the world would have to make the survivability of being the most vulnerable among us greater.

Anyways, I'm just wondering what other people might do, or if there's other things people can think of that might be more efficient.