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This is, usually, where one would suspend a patient.  Instead they're playing it out to the end and hoping that somebody in this process comes up with a last-minute miracle.

In terms of the children's game... you could model it, maybe, as a series of six quantum die-rolls, each with a 1/81 chance of bumping the number up by 80%.  And each time that doesn't happen, the number drops by another 1%.

In the children's game, of course, the worlds actually branch, and you know that some version of yourself, though with a very small amount of realityfluid, saw the number go up by 80%.  This isn't a quantum game, that way; if it was, the patient would pretty reliably experience waking up, albeit not embedded in reality quite as much as before, and if they went on playing games like that they'd find themselves somewhere else sooner or later.

Here, by and large, you'd expect everyone inside the universe as dath ilan knows it, to see pretty much the same outcome.  It's known, the dice already rolled somewhere behind the screen; now it's just playing out.

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This is, usually, where one would suspend a patient.  Instead they're playing it out to the end and hoping that somebody in this process comes up with a last-minute miracle.

In terms of the children's game... you could model it, maybe, as a series of six quantum die-rolls, each with a 1/81 chance of bumping the number up by 80%.  And each time that doesn't happen, the number drops by another 1%.

In the children's game, of course, the worlds actually branch, and you know that some version of yourself, though with a very small amount of realityfluid, saw the number go up by 80%.  This isn't a quantum game, that way; if it was, the patient would pretty reliably experience waking up, albeit not embedded in reality quite as much as before, and if they went on playing games like that they'd find themselves somewhere else sooner or later.

Here, by and large, you'd expect everyone inside the universe as dath ilan knows it, to see pretty much the same outcome.  It's knowable to an ideal agent if not to mortals, the dice already rolled somewhere behind the screen; now it's just playing out.

5%.

4%.