Does It Matter Whether One Makes a Decision for Oneself or for Others?

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"I don't think that the many worlds thing matters that much in this kind of analysis," he says. "If you say 98 people get a million dollars, one gets 20 million, one gets zero"? To me, that's exactly equivalent to saying there is a 98% chance that I willget a million dollars and a 1% chance I get nothing." He continues: "Maybe I go for the 20 million. If I were destitute and poor, maybe I would feel very differently about that"

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