prase comments on Applying utility functions to humans considered harmful - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 07 February 2010 07:27:19PM *  0 points [-]

So, should quantum mechanics be modified by removing the randomness from it?

Now, having a two level spin system in state ( |0> + |1> ) /sqrt[2], QM says that the result of measurement is random and so we'll find the particle in state |1> with probability 1/2.

A modified QM would say, that the first measurement reveals 1, the second (after recreating the original initial state, of course) 1, the third 0, etc., with sequence 110010010110100010101010010101011110010101...

I understand that you say that the second version of quantum mechanics would be simpler, and disagree.