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
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?
Well, you’re right about some things. I do barely ever go outside. But as with the knives and other things, I think you have to take into account the probability of one not doing those things versus the probability of one dying from them.
The probability of me never using a knife is very unlikely. If it’s more unlikely for me to never use a knife and thus not slice myself, then it is unlikely that I would use one. I’ll use one.
I’ve tried slicing my neck. I just end up fainting.
What compelled you to try that? Please don’t test your mortality.
I don’t think people in comas have a good chance of survivability. There’s all kinds of stuff that can kill you in a coma. Bed sores, pneumonia, infection, bleeding, so many things.