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Armok_GoB comments on Does quantum mechanics make simulations negligible? - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: homunq 13 August 2011 01:53AM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 16 August 2011 10:20:01AM 1 point [-]

If this is true, it has an interesting application: you could control the utility weight of a simulation nearly independently from it's behaviour, by having it deterministic except for a large input for random data in it, and switching the sourced of that randomness between a pseudorandom number algorithm and quantum randomness. Obvious example would be an upload of you which is deterministic and non-branching when experiencing unpleasant things, and massively branching (much more so than your biological brain) when experiencing pleasant things.