Recovering_irrationalist comments on Decoherence is Simple - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 May 2008 07:44AM

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Comment author: Recovering_irrationalist 06 May 2008 01:04:51PM 3 points [-]

If you're covering this later I'll wait, but I ask now in case my confusion means I'm misunderstanding something.

Why isn't nearly everything entanged with nearly everything else around it by now? Why is there a significant amount of much quantum independance still around? Or does it just look that way because entanged subconfigurations tend to get split off by decorehence so branches retain a reasonable amount of non-entangledness within their branch? Sorry if this is a daft or daftly phrased question.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 27 April 2012 08:48:17PM 5 points [-]

It IS. That was something Eliezer said waay back when, and he was right. Entanglement is a very ordinary state of affairs.

Your educated guess is correct.

Comment author: shminux 27 April 2012 10:01:22PM 2 points [-]

Indeed, a thoroughly entangled world looks classical, however paradoxical it might sound. Regardless of the adopted interpretation.