>look bro I have a machine that can see the future
Ok so why didnt someone just…
1. Set the machine to look at yourself 10 seconds in the future
2. Tell yourself that in 10 seconds you will raise your right hand
3. When the machine shows you raising your right hand 10 seconds in the future, you instead raise your left hand, thus disproving that the machine can actually tell the future
How would this experiment NOT work??
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You're presuming it wouldn't show you raising your left hand
Because devs is a dumb ripoff of a qntm story where that happens and including that scene would have set them up for a lawsuit https://qntm.org/responsibility
that was a really good short story. not op.
It's prediction is based on a universe where you didn't have foreknowledge of what hand you raised
Yeah, it's a pretty gay show
Because when you use the computer, you are collapsing the state
>x|see self raise right hand> + y|see self not raise right hand>
into the state
>|see self raise right hand>
(note that I left out the overall phase here since it's just a mathematical relic of this particular formulation)
Now, your experiment to not raise your right hand after would put you in the state
>|see self raise right hand>|not raise right hand>
but an outside observer, for whom your wave function just before observation is
>a|see self raise right hand>|raise right hand> + b|see self raise right hand>|not raise right hand> + c|see self not raise right hand>|raise right hand> + d|see self not raise right hand>|not raise right hand>
because they're observing you and the values of all observables of self-adjoint operarors are eigenvalues, it is clear that the coefficients b and c must necessarily equal zero. So what you're saying is akin to asking "If classical mechanics predicts you can't be in both Japan and Egypt at the same time, why don't you just go tl Japan and then go to Egypt without leaving Japan?"
nerd
that is the nerdiest thing i've read in a while..
It makes sense if you do some kind of true random thing e.g. if this particular partical with a half life of 10 minutes decay within the first 5 minutes i raise my right hand, if decay after 5 minutes i raise my left hand. You then observe yourself raising your right hand, i can see how this would "collapse the state", giving a 100% probability of decay within the first 5 minutes.
But when we account for "free will" or whatever, you still have to raise your right hand. "for the next 5 minutes i will not raise my hand no matter what".. argghh, can't do it, because the quantum state has already collapsed.
Explain this like I’m moronic please
dey dunt fink it be like dat but it do
How the janny sees himself
I watched like 3 episodes of this show, the second and third of which was just out of morbid curiosity because it was fricking dogshit. Unfortunately it never seemed to be going anywhere interesting and I stopped being curious and started feeling pissed off.
I almost want to finish it, now. It would be my first time actually hate-watching something, which apparently is really in vogue. Plus, Cailee Spaeny makes my nub stuff.
I thought the last episode was basically that. The machine just made excellent predictions and all the others working on it were just too entrenched in the project and true believers, so when the machine said something about them, they acted along believing it was inevitable. The outsider protagonist wasn't a believer so she didn't give a hoot about the machine's predictions and acted accordingly to her free will.
So the theme was basically that with enough computational power and information you can make an illusion that free will doesn't exist and many will believe that. But it ain't be like that after all.
My thesis got btfo'd in the threads discussing this series back then though.
>acted accordingly to her free will.
She acted as predicted
She didn't but the outcome was the same.
If it can see the future, it can see you will raise your black left hand, you gorilla.
Why did they make Nick Offerman look like Ryan Dunn?
They only hired people who believed in a determinist universe so therefore everyone involved would refuse to break the universe because their belief was unbreakable.
The Asian lady was not a believer and thus when given a choice she broke it.
I don't get why the tomboy had to jump. What would surviving prove that you couldn't prove in a non-dangerous way? It seemed unnecessary.
I freaking love the aesthetic of this show. Alex Garland has one of the best styles, for my taste.
This was the most self indulgent tripe I watched in a long time I'd like to roundhouse kick Alex Garland. He's still the same psuedo intellectual who wrote The Beach
>The Beach
Very comfy book
i only watched it for the flat-chested cutie, the plot was stupid.
quantum computing is a scam
>i'm so smart and everyone is so dumb hehe
>they made the troon actually 41%'d itself
Was Garland secretly based?
That doesn't disprove the machine works. That's linear thinking.