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Yes, but you're not applying the hypothesis to the fullest.
If it's correct, and the number of worlds is infinite, then some of you buy tickets even when you don't. And they win. So, you don't actually need to make the move at all. π
If it's truly an infinite number of worlds, in some of them you win the lottery without even buying a ticket.
Yes. In some, you're given enough wealth that it renders lotteries obsolete.
And then there's the other infinite number of worlds where you're eating out of dumpsters and living under a bridge.
Are you mocking me?
No. I'm mocking the you in another universe, you're fine.
This really makes one of me angry somewhere
Donβt worry I think I just slapped them in world 445B-Omega
Sorry Iβm Jesus in that world, so that me will probably turn the other ass cheek after you smite my eye or something
Of course. And some put the reality of Dead Man's Letters into shame.
In a literal sense, assuming the theory that consciousness in some way depends on quantum processes is correct, this is the proper interpretation.
Lottery balls being picked seems very unlikely to be dependent on a superposition.
But (a) choosing to buy a ticket, and (b) what numbers you choose both plausibly could if the above assumption is correct.
So not only would other yous be buying tickets in other worlds, they'd be buying many different numbers in many different worlds, even if the you in this world wasn't buying any tickets at all.
And even if the you in this world was now so strongly against the lottery that no future 'branch' of you would ever buy a ticket regardless of the degree to which a superposition might influence your decisions, the many yous from childhood would be so variably influenced in different ways from others around you from birth to now that there might be other parallel yous who superstitiously buy every ticket.
Even in terms of number selection - if the you here might choose the birthdate of a spouse or children as the numbers, yous in other worlds might have different spouses or children to choose numbers based on.
Many worlds is a rather boring theory unless also entertaining it with the notion that - like how birds navigate - our decision making somehow depends on quantum effects.
I just need to invent a device to merge with them.
You already did
Plenty of lottery winners end more miserably than they were before. If anything, invent the device that's gonna make you happy just where you are...
Always accept the winnings through an LLC and a lawyer. Don't tell your family or friends unless you can really trust them. Be kind and giving and you should be fine.
Have you ever won a lot of money in a lottery? I mean A LOT, not some "enough to buy a used car/new desktop rig"?
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