Hello? Yes, I would like one survivorship bias, please, but could you add some physics and a little philosophy so it’s less obvious I have an untestable, maladaptive hypothesis? Oh, and coping mechanisms on half. Thanks!
In all seriousness, it’s a fun theory, but it’s unknowable at this point.
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s not unknowable, you just have to conduct enough tests personally to have a reasonable level of confidence.
You shouldn’t, but you could.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Okay, first of all, that’s clever and hilarious, so thank you.
Secondly, I put it to you that testing this either results in the end of personal knowledge entirely or else an outcome that can’t be peer-reviewed. I feel like that’s a pretty hard limit on the knowledge that can be gained here.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
To test this you need an external observer who can register every quantum outcome and therefore can see/measure in every quantum reality. How else would you get verifiable and reproducable data?
We are very far away from such a possibility, we don’t even know for sure if quantum theory (or which one of the many specific quantum theories) in general or the many worlds interpretation in speciality is even correct or not.
It is a nice thought experiment though.