If I subscribe to the many worlds theory, every time I buy a lottery ticket one of me wins.Gregorech@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 159 points – 1 years ago71Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentBut surely the chance of "me" winning the lottery at least once is 1 if I play an infinite number of timesI think that’s only true if the lottery numbers you end up with are truly the result of random selection in infinite universes.Is the lottery not random?I think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/
But surely the chance of "me" winning the lottery at least once is 1 if I play an infinite number of timesI think that’s only true if the lottery numbers you end up with are truly the result of random selection in infinite universes.Is the lottery not random?I think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/
I think that’s only true if the lottery numbers you end up with are truly the result of random selection in infinite universes.Is the lottery not random?I think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/
Is the lottery not random?I think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/
I think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/
But surely the chance of "me" winning the lottery at least once is 1 if I play an infinite number of times
I think that’s only true if the lottery numbers you end up with are truly the result of random selection in infinite universes.
Is the lottery not random?
I think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/