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If you’re reading this, your probability of existing is 1. The probability of all known-to-have-happened events to have happened is always 1.

Of course, that assumes that the knowledge is correct; but even the most die-hard skeptic can be absolutely certain that they themselves exist.




but even the most die-hard skeptic can be absolutely certain that they themselves exist.

I could potentially be non-existing or not-me in ways that I'm not clever enough to speculate about, let alone the ways I could speculate about (simulation, Boltzmann brains, Dust theory, dreams).




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