Re: COMPUTERS; Quantum Computers

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Dec 26 1996 - 19:53:48 MST


At 06:49 PM 12/26/96 -0600, Eli wrote:

>Heck, with a 64-qubit QC, you could probably string
>instructions together completely at random and wind up with the most
>powerful solution immediately.

 If you crossed a quantum computer with Borges's Library of Babel, it struck
me a while back, might you destructively interfere all the `wrong'
descriptions of physics, being left with a single Book of True Everything
(Abridged)? I love the idea that you could turn on the infinite monkey
machine and get out Ed Witten Mark Aleph Null.

Damien Broderick



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