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0 Post author: DataPacRat 18 November 2013 10:46PM

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Comment author: DataPacRat 19 November 2013 01:58:55AM 0 points [-]

What measures can a would-be MWI-lottery-winner take to create, or add, relevant quantum-randomness?

Comment author: Skeptityke 19 November 2013 05:07:31AM *  2 points [-]

This is another website that may be of use. Just fire it up for a while, pause the stream of numbers, and do what you will with them. It is guaranteed to be quantum-random.

Comment author: AlexMennen 19 November 2013 02:35:31AM 2 points [-]

This website claims to use a quantum random number generator (i.e. if you ask it for 6 random digits, each possible sequence of digits will appear with quantum measure 10^-6). Technically, it's not quite guaranteed that using this to select a lottery ticket out of 10^6 possibilities will cause you to win with quantum measure 10^-6, since it is possible that your selection of a lottery ticket could affect which number wins, but it doesn't seem likely that that would have a huge effect.

Comment author: DanielLC 19 November 2013 05:14:15AM 1 point [-]

How recent does the branch have to be to count as "you"? There's enough chaos that I'm pretty certain coinflips will turn out different a day after branching.