From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 15:53:19 MDT
Actually, this is something that I've been wondering about myself since
roughly the age of 16. Whether or not a measurement is made is something
that has experimental consequences, and measurements of entangled states are
supposed to cause distant collapses. So why can't you use the fact of
measurement, whether something is in an "entangled state", to transmit
information? You can't use Bell inequalities to transmit information
depending on *which of two* measurements you make, but it's always looked to
me like you should be able to transmit information based on *whether or not*
you make a measurement. I seem to recall posting a question about this
once, but I can't find it in my mail archives.
Anyway, if anyone has a definite knock-down disproof of this paper, please
pass it on to me, because I've been wondering for a very long time.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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