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by koryk 1056 days ago
I use https://qrng.anu.edu.au/ as a quantum RNG sometimes to make decisions. If my choices are deterministic and not influenced by quantum randomness, then my choices are deterministic. Even if Everett's interpretation is true, my multiverse selves are doing the same things that I am doing.

If I use a quantum RNG to make decisions I will spice up my life in alternate realities. Mexican food or Vietnamese tonight? Use the quantum RNG to decide and get both across the multiverse.

2 comments

First, I love your attitude towards life and this comment elicited satisfying chuckles from my soul.

That aside, perhaps you could explain to me what's "new" and/or "better" about a quantum RNG?

Were all the sources of "true randomness" we used in the past not, at their core, relying on some sort of quantum phenomena (even if "we" didn't know it at the time).

I'm NOT an EE but I've seen all sorts of circuits (that I don't deeply understand) that rely on some side effect of a transistor or diode to produce entropy. Transistor noise, random telegraph noise, thermal noise, etc.

Using the Universe Splitter is more fun: https://cheapuniverses.com/