Re: Making money via quantum suicide

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:46:50 -0700

Just buy an annuity that starts paying out when you're 80 (they're cheap).
  The annuity sellers are essentially betting you wont' live to much beyond
that - and they're almost always right.

Brent Meeker

Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Hi Lawrence, welcome,
>
> You have to be more precise on the betting procedure. You will win the
> bet against people who, from your personal point of view, will most
> probably be dead at the time. How do you intent to recover the money?
>
> Bruno
>
>
> On 05 Jun 2008, at 15:28, Lawrence wrote:
>
>> Forgive me if the following comment is ill-thought through as this is
>> my first post to the group.
>>
>> It appears to me that, assuming QS is true, I should bet some
>> reasonably substantial amount of cash at the local bookies that I will
>> live to 110 or 120 years of age. Of course I will be around to collect
>> it given QS. This does assume the bookies is still around to pay for
>> it!
>>
>> Any thoughts/flames appreciated.
>>
>> Lawrence
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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