Random aside, but does the St. Petersburg paradox not just make total sense if you believe Everett & do a quantum coin flip? i.e. in 1⁄2 universes you die, & in 1⁄2 you more than double. From the perspective of all things I might care about in the multiverse, this is just “make more stuff that I care about exist in the multiverse, with certainty”
Or more intuitively, “with certainty, move your civilization to a different universe alongside another prospering civilization you value, and make both more prosperous”.
Or if you repeat it, you have “move all civilizations into a few giant universes, and make them dramatically more prosperous.
I think this Everettian framing is useful and really probes at how we should think about probabilities outside of the quantum sense as well. So I would suggest your reasoning this holds for the standard coin flip case too.
Random aside, but does the St. Petersburg paradox not just make total sense if you believe Everett & do a quantum coin flip? i.e. in 1⁄2 universes you die, & in 1⁄2 you more than double. From the perspective of all things I might care about in the multiverse, this is just “make more stuff that I care about exist in the multiverse, with certainty”
Or more intuitively, “with certainty, move your civilization to a different universe alongside another prospering civilization you value, and make both more prosperous”.
Or if you repeat it, you have “move all civilizations into a few giant universes, and make them dramatically more prosperous.
Which is clearly good under most views, right?
I think this Everettian framing is useful and really probes at how we should think about probabilities outside of the quantum sense as well. So I would suggest your reasoning this holds for the standard coin flip case too.