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[-] admiralpone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Your intuition is correct here. OP is wrong. An infinite set of branches of the wavefunction does not necessarily imply that everything you can imagine must happen somewhere in that wavefunction.

[-] thenofootcanman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But surely the chance of "me" winning the lottery at least once is 1 if I play an infinite number of times

[-] rockstarpirate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think that’s only true if the lottery numbers you end up with are truly the result of random selection in infinite universes.

[-] thenofootcanman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] rockstarpirate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/

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