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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

If I subscribe to the many worlds theory, every time I buy a lottery ticket one of me wins.

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If I subscribe to the many worlds theory, every time I buy a lottery ticket one of me wins.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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But surely the chance of “me” winning the lottery at least once is 1 if I play an infinite number of times
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  I think that’s only true if the lottery numbers you end up with are truly the result of random selection in infinite universes.
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    Is the lottery not random?

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