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[โ€“] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also the possibility of Boltzmann brain hallucinating things, but since there is no way to prove or disprove it, that's still not a reason to be an asshole

[โ€“] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just a fun tidbit: The guy who proposed the math for the many worlds hypothesis, Hugh Everett, was reportedly a huge asshole (and abused his own health) because he figured that in a lot of other versions he was a swell guy.