Wrap your head around this~~~~~
We only survive if the world gets weirder. There's an infinite number of universes, but in a constrained way. Mathematicians argue about infinity all the time but to cut the argument short, universes are a limited kind of infinite as in too high to count but not literally endless.
Even in in arbitrarily large sets like the number of universes probability can still be observed. You flip a coin half of the future universes have heads, half have tails. But what happens if you apply this logic backwards? If you flipped three coins in a row and got three heads then whatever coin you do after that will only occur in 1/8th of all the universes. This seems arbitrary because if you were going to go to lunch after flipping a coin three times then nothing stops you from doing so in both universes.
But what about something more consequential than coin flips? If you did the same thing with Russian Roulette then some versions of you would not be getting lunch that day. It goes without saying that you only exist in universes that allow you to survive. So apply this logic to everything that could literally destroy the earth. Solar events, asteroids, wandering black holes. Some small number of universes get taken out. But these are random events, they might happen to any universe on a long enough time line, just bad luck.
So now consider events with low probability of consequence but are directly under human control. Like nuclear weapons. Assume there was a 1 in 100 chance of all out nuclear war starting in 1970. Unlike your arbitrary heads or tails, these are bullets, to win is to die.
By 1980 about 9.5% of all universes are gone, as far as humans are concerned.
By 1990 about 18.2%
By 2000 about 26%
By 2020 about 40%
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We don't know what the actual chance of war is because we've survived every year. But whats clear is that the universes that fall under the middle of the bell curve are being killed off. Your survival is by definition a low probability event the longer this scenario goes on no matter how low the risk is. Which means our universe racks up other low probability events as a consequence. If normality leads to death, survival is defined by deviation from the norm that created that environment. So maybe our universe is weird in all sorts of ways.
Like all the worlds money supply being controlled by a fairly open and honest cabal with that specific goal
Like all the conspiracies of the CIA being laid bare in the Church Commission, and nothing happening
Like the soviet union, after 70 years of brinkmanship with the west, just gives up and the wall comes down on a random Thursday
Like Bill Clinton visiting a place literally called Lolita Island and his exploits there becoming public knowledge
Like South Korea being run by a fairy queen cult and that story not staying in the news for more than a month
Like Donald fucking Trump becoming PotUS
Like an obviously rigged election putting a walking corpse into the same position and everyone just pretending its normal
Like a totally new form of currency just appearing on the internet, and no one has any fucking clue who came up with it
Like the government casually disclosing UFO's existence after decades of fervent denials.
The universe, or at least our little timeline in it, must keep getting weirder. Once the destructive capacity of mans technology reached a certain point all the sense making high normal probabilistic consequences of that technology killed off whole lineages of mankind. Our literal survival is the result of a nonsensical low probability environment whose only redeeming feature is being selected for avoiding causing our own annihilation.
That's what it means to live in Clown World.
We only survive if the world gets weirder. There's an infinite number of universes, but in a constrained way. Mathematicians argue about infinity all the time but to cut the argument short, universes are a limited kind of infinite as in too high to count but not literally endless.
Even in in arbitrarily large sets like the number of universes probability can still be observed. You flip a coin half of the future universes have heads, half have tails. But what happens if you apply this logic backwards? If you flipped three coins in a row and got three heads then whatever coin you do after that will only occur in 1/8th of all the universes. This seems arbitrary because if you were going to go to lunch after flipping a coin three times then nothing stops you from doing so in both universes.
But what about something more consequential than coin flips? If you did the same thing with Russian Roulette then some versions of you would not be getting lunch that day. It goes without saying that you only exist in universes that allow you to survive. So apply this logic to everything that could literally destroy the earth. Solar events, asteroids, wandering black holes. Some small number of universes get taken out. But these are random events, they might happen to any universe on a long enough time line, just bad luck.
So now consider events with low probability of consequence but are directly under human control. Like nuclear weapons. Assume there was a 1 in 100 chance of all out nuclear war starting in 1970. Unlike your arbitrary heads or tails, these are bullets, to win is to die.
By 1980 about 9.5% of all universes are gone, as far as humans are concerned.
By 1990 about 18.2%
By 2000 about 26%
By 2020 about 40%
continued 1/2
>
We don't know what the actual chance of war is because we've survived every year. But whats clear is that the universes that fall under the middle of the bell curve are being killed off. Your survival is by definition a low probability event the longer this scenario goes on no matter how low the risk is. Which means our universe racks up other low probability events as a consequence. If normality leads to death, survival is defined by deviation from the norm that created that environment. So maybe our universe is weird in all sorts of ways.
Like all the worlds money supply being controlled by a fairly open and honest cabal with that specific goal
Like all the conspiracies of the CIA being laid bare in the Church Commission, and nothing happening
Like the soviet union, after 70 years of brinkmanship with the west, just gives up and the wall comes down on a random Thursday
Like Bill Clinton visiting a place literally called Lolita Island and his exploits there becoming public knowledge
Like South Korea being run by a fairy queen cult and that story not staying in the news for more than a month
Like Donald fucking Trump becoming PotUS
Like an obviously rigged election putting a walking corpse into the same position and everyone just pretending its normal
Like a totally new form of currency just appearing on the internet, and no one has any fucking clue who came up with it
Like the government casually disclosing UFO's existence after decades of fervent denials.
The universe, or at least our little timeline in it, must keep getting weirder. Once the destructive capacity of mans technology reached a certain point all the sense making high normal probabilistic consequences of that technology killed off whole lineages of mankind. Our literal survival is the result of a nonsensical low probability environment whose only redeeming feature is being selected for avoiding causing our own annihilation.
That's what it means to live in Clown World.
