Christian_Szegedy comments on Quantum Russian Roulette - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 18 September 2009 08:45:11PM 0 points [-]

This is a very interesting point and somehow shakes my belief in the current version of MWI.

What I could imagine is that since the total information content of multiverse must be finite, there is some additional quantification going on that makes highly improbable branches "too fuzzy" to be observable. Or something like that.

Comment author: cousin_it 18 September 2009 08:47:31PM *  2 points [-]

Not likely. You're already in a highly improbable branch, and it's getting less probable every millisecond.

Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 19 September 2009 02:15:11AM 0 points [-]

We have seen in the sister topic that mangled worlds theory can in fact account for such information loss. However MWT has similar deficiencies as single worlds: non local action, nonlinearity, discontinuity. It does not mean it can't be true.

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Comment author: pengvado 19 September 2009 02:33:55AM 0 points [-]

Why would the information content of a quantum universe be measured in bits, rather than qubits? 2^1000 qubits is enough to keep track of every possible configuration of the Hubble volume, without discarding any low magnitude ones. (Unless of course QM does discard low magnitude branches, in which case your quantum computer would too... but such a circular definition is consistent with any amount of information content.)