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by ggm 767 days ago
> I genuinely think it's a fun & potentially meaningful way to make a decision.

what difference is there to any 50/50 choice mechanism you chose, other than being horrendously expensive to implement?

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If you roll a regular coin without any quantum effects, every version of you will either see only heads, or only tails. You need quantum in order to make the choice nondeterministic.
I keep getting "500 Internal Server Error" when trying to login. It's not logging in. I get this error after entering the "IBM verify code" which I receive in an email.
Ah, but in the other universe, you logged in successfully and saw there was nothing to see.
I had this issue with IBM SSO many times. You may have to wait 24-48 hours before it’s resolved for your acct.
How do I know they won't just give me a cached output from someone else's identical job, or from a simulator? I don't really trust IBM to not mess it up.
There are no other versions of people
I think it's time we had the quantum computing talk: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3