If I subscribe to the many worlds theory, every time I buy a lottery ticket one of me wins. - eviltoast
  • rockstarpirate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I agree with all of that. But the bigger point is that there are things that can’t/won’t happen that we can’t predict, so this means we can’t assume that “there must be a universe in which X happens to me”.

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      1 year ago

      In respect to the lottery, every (lottery valid) combination has a chance of happening and we are assuming infinite variation, so if someone buys a lotto ticket for say “1 2 3 4 5”, that will be the picked numbers in at least one variation.

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        1 year ago

        Ok, that makes sense. I would agree that for any truly random circumstance, when given infinite iterations, all possible combinations will eventually occur.