Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Well this is a new idea https://x.com/empty_america/status/1812542650404258197?s=61&t=Z7ogL5oXQlE-zjAQ_mFVBw
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necopinus
@necopinus.eth
One of my favorite sci-fi ideas is that consciousness only exists in a single world-line at a time, and constantly hops world-lines in order to maximize its survival. Every time you *could have died*, you *did* die, but your consciousness just hopped over to the next closest branch where you survived.
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necopinus
@necopinus.eth
When you finally die, it's almost always in the least probable (personal) world-line, because you've survived or avoided every possible death that *is* survivable or avoidable.
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