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TLDR: Because of quantum immortality, my consciousness will continuously pass through all possible minds, but first through the most similar, connected, nearest, and future ones. This is enabled by the extremely small chance that a mind can transform into any other mind. The theory solves the copy problem, as it...

On 3 September 2022, Igor Kiriluk suddenly died (see EA Forum obituary). He was a great communicator and organized the first Moscow EA meetup. He had been active in the transhumanist scene since 2003 and even attracted the founders of KrioRus to transhumanism. He worked as community glue and visited...

Epistemic: generally agree with S.Armstrong here, but adding some links and ideas SSA and SIA are designed in the way that they work only in a finite universe. FNС and anthropic decision theory also assume that the number of observers can be countable. Therefore, they are toy examples which are...

This is not a call for espionage, but an analysis of another strategy Von Neumann's strategy for solving the problem of global nuclear weapons proliferation is widely known - strike tomorrow. That is, conquer the entire world by exploiting that brief window when only one side possesses nuclear weapons. This...

In the article "“Proposal for an experimental test of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics” its author R. Plaga suggested that if we trap an ion in a quantum well, we can later use it for one-time communication between multiverse branches. In a recent experiment, it was shown that such...

I heard that there are around 100 solutions of the Fermi paradox. Here I tried to collect the largest possible list and I am open to the new suggestions. Download pdf with links here. Also, see here AI-updated version of the map which includes probabilities and Global vs Local solution...

Epistemic: a section from my unpublished article about badness of death. I decided to publish it given recent discussion about metaethics in order to show my attempt to brut force metaethics by listing all known solutions. Here we explore how different metaethical theories explain the nature and origin of values,...