Do Boltsman Brains Last Longer Than You Want?

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In a fluctuating universe that lasts eternally, the condition you want will most often be achieved by waiting for a random fluctuation to bring that condition into existence. So when you ask a question like, do boltsman brains last long enough? Well, some of them do. Some of them don't, but some of them will. And yer you ask, there's two different kinds of questions you can ask. One is in the set of all fluctuations. What will most of them be like? But the problem of this a scenario doesn't come from that. It comes from asking the other question: Given some conditions, are they likely to be random fluctuations, or is it likely

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