I wrote an article on pensions and QTI a while back. I had lunch with Frank
Field, the UK's minister in charge of pension reform and then sent it to
him. For some reason he never got back to me. Check out
http://higgo.com/quantum/modest.htm
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> From: Russell Standish [SMTP:R.Standish.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 1:49 AM
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> Subject: Real Decisions based on QTI
>
> I have posted a number of times the concept that any suicide
> experiment is likely to fail in ways completely unintended by the
> experimenter, and therefore have negative consequences for the
> experimenter. Admittedly, Chris Maloney's post sounded like he had all
> the bases covered, but Murphy's law is awfully powerful.
>
> However, I thought I'd report on how QTI has influenced me on a couple
> of items recently. The first was in making a decision whether to stay
> with my present superannuation scheme (which provides for a pension
> for life, based on one's salary at retirement) and having the funds
> invested in conventional shares and bonds, a possibly risky
> strategy. With QTI, the life-long pension sounds like a good deal, and
> is what I eventually chose, for that reason. However, I fully realise
> that with QTI, I am likely to outlive the pension fund, or inflation
> will so erode its value, that perhaps the decision is not so
> clear-cut.
>
> The second issue is in relation to euthanasia. I used to be in favour
> of this, on the basis that I grew up on a farm, and understood the
> phrase "putting it out of its misery". However, the process of
> attempting to kill someone is only likely to increase their suffering
> in those worlds where they survive. So now I'm against euthanasia, at
> least until someone can convince me they can control the outcome of
> the "merciful death" well enough to ensure that the patient is almost
> always in a better world because of it.
>
> On the same vein, it would take a lot of convincing to get me to ge
> through one of Bruno Marchal's teleportation devices.
>
> On that cheery note,...
>
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