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> Statistically, you're simply bound to pop back into existence no matter how long it takes.

The implication of this argument is that innumerable terrible torturous things also happen to you "no matter how long it takes."

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It would also seem to be a pretty obvious fallacy (although I’m very happy to hear the counter argument). It assumes the “game” is not only infinite in length but infinitely open in terms of the space it explores: a million monkeys on a million typewriters may produce Shakespeare but they’ll never produce a bowl of ice cream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

So do countless aeons of immeasurably heavenly and pleasurable experiences. It's hard to try and pick just a chunk out of something that's, for all practical purposes, infinite; even harder to try to judge it out of that infinite context.

Yes, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I really am just recreated in infinite permutations, I become somewhat apathetic to whether this life is my last or not - the alternative doesn't seem all that better or reassuring.

Why is apathy a more relevant feeling? Sure you may have countless experiences in the future or perhaps just a few but you're here now. The only relevant feelings about yourself ought to be about what's going on in your perceptible life?

Yes, I mean apathy around the possibility of long term "immortality"

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