The bullet-swallowers

Abstract

The article argues that there is a correlation between accepting the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics and supporting libertarianism. The article proposes that both MWI and libertarianism are attractive to “bullet-swallowers” – individuals who readily accept any counterintuitive conclusion that follows logically from their chosen set of axioms. The author presents an analogy where one attempts to approximate a function using a Taylor series. “Bullet-swallowers” would assume that the entire function is simply the infinite Taylor series, while “bullet-dodgers” would be more cautious, recognizing that the Taylor series is only an approximation, valid only in a small neighborhood around the point of observation. The author suggests that libertarians and MWI proponents tend to fall into the category of “bullet-swallowers.” – AI-generated abstract.