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Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

enjoyed the first episodes, will watch more.

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Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

it is interesting to me that in garland's first novel, the main character discusses many worlds with someone.

we really like to latch onto some bullshit and just bang on about it for the rest of our lives huh...

Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

It was lyndon.





Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

Tiggum posted:

Not "wake up", he'll just always have been there. If many-worlds is true then everything that possibly can happen does happen. So if it's possible for you to die at a particular time then an infinite subset of the infinite number of yous will die and there's nothing you can do about that. Either you're in a branch of the universe where you die or you're in a branch where you live, and since you'll only go on experiencing anything in the branches where you live, from your own perspective you will always end up living.

He wasn't just pissed off, he assumed they'd double-crossed him (as he would have done to them in their position - or what he believed their position to be).
probably sucks to be in one of the worlds where you die and time dilates as you fall to your death and you are stuck thinking how much it sucks that you are about to die and an infinite number of you didn't fall making you a cosmic scale fuckup.

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