Louie comments on The ethics of randomized computation in the multiverse - Less Wrong

8 Post author: lukeprog 22 November 2011 04:31PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 November 2011 05:25:41PM 18 points [-]

Shouldn't I be equally worried about stirring my coffee?

Comment author: Louie 24 November 2011 06:11:16PM 0 points [-]

I'm willing to consider that this quantum computer could be a novel situation that demands real consideration.

The vector space of your coffee is basically flat whereas the vector space of the algorithm Deutsch is describing is unimaginably vast. The fact that both are embedded in quantum physics is somewhat besides the point.