There’s now a small chance that the next shooting is some singularity-craving bazinga with a greeble-laden AR-15 that believes they can’t get domed by the Secret Service because they believe in “quantum immortality” and will immediately teleport to a reality where they weren’t domed by the Secret Service. yud-rational

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    even if the many-worlds hypothesis was correct, there’s currently no reason to believe that your consciousness in this universe would be contiguous with your consciousness in any other ‘adjacent’ universes. quantum immortality is about as convincing as pascal’s wager lol. get better at epistemological nihilism tech-ghouls your unhinged assumptions are hilariously obvious.

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      Of course it’s bullshit wishful thinking from bazingas afraid of death but wanting some of that religious escapism anyway.

      For similar reasons they feverishly pretend that cyber-heaven awaits… and more clownishly, cyber-hell courtesy of “Rok0’s Bas!lisk” which is way scarier than old fashioned hell because there will be thousands, millions, billions, or maybe infinite perfect copies of the unworthy dead there, and because dae le copy is le exactly the same as the original person because hand-wavium reasons, it’s like suffering in hell thousands, millions, billions, or maybe infinite times over! I don’t know if that means all the perfect copies have telepathy with each other or whatever bullshit is at play, but they believe it, lol. yud-rational

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      big-yud “it’s impossible to experience not existing, therefore it’s impossible to experience being dead, therefore the you that is you will never die”

      grillman “it’s impossible to experience being dead, so your final moment will just be like falling into a black hole and never reaching it”