QTI apparently implies a very efficient machine to compute the solution
to any well defined problem. Suppose you want to factor a large number.
The machine simply generates some random numbers using thermal noise,
computes their product, compares it with the number to factor, and in
case they do n
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>
> Yet another QTI money-making scheme, this one rather less frightening
> than standard QS: you find a gambling game which is completely fair (easier
> said than done) and take with you the means of instant death, like a strong
> poison which you keep in your pocket. Y
Periklis Akritidis wrote:
> Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> >
> > Yet another QTI money-making scheme, this one rather less frightening
> > than standard QS: you find a gambling game which is completely fair (easier
> > said than done) and take with you the means of i
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> This is the most immediate response of people to the QTI idea: even if it's
> true,
> what do I care if other versions of me survive in the multiverse if I'm going
> to die?
According to QTI you are not going to die in any universe because there
are no dead ends in
David Nyman wrote:
> Some of us may recall the tontine, invented in the 17th century by a
> Neapolitan banker called Lorenzo de Tonti as an investment scheme, but
> now illegal, in the US and UK at least. The only beneficiary is the
> last survivor, who scoops the pool. A QTI tontine would presuma
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