Jonathan_Graehl comments on Quantum Russian Roulette - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Christian_Szegedy 18 September 2009 08:49AM

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 18 September 2009 06:47:01PM 1 point [-]

As I understand it, the only way to have a known-live undetonated bomb in this branch is to cause it to actually detonate it in other branches.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 September 2009 08:14:22PM 0 points [-]

Sorta, but not quite, as the probability of it actually detonating can be brought as close to 0 as one likes (if I'm not mistaken).

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 18 September 2009 09:36:30PM 0 points [-]

Yes - I didn't mean all other branches.