pre comments on Request For Article: Many-Worlds Quantum Computing - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pre 20 November 2009 08:09:45PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. Sounds like you're saying that the entire process of quantum computation aims to keep the system coherent, and so avoid splitting the universe. Which make sense. They tell me the difficulty, in an engineering sense, is to stop the system de-cohering.

Is that remotely accurate?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 November 2009 08:16:08PM 1 point [-]

Yes. Except that the universe doesn't ever split. It's always continuous. But we're trying to keep two blobs of amplitude in close contact rather than letting them diverge, so that some parts can overlap and add up or cancel out.