[extropy-chat] The History and the Pseudo-History of Science

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From: "MB"

> Does anyone have an opinion on
> "The Scientists" by John Gribbin?

No. But John Gribbin invented the
'quantum suicide' - at least according to 
Milan Cirkovic - before Squires (1986),
Moravec (1988), Zeh (1992), Price (1996), 
Tegmark (1998), etc.

Damien, nobody invented the 'quantum 
resuscitation'? Essentially, it would be 
a device measuring the projection operator 
on the state defined as
1/sqrt2 [|alive> + exp(i theta)|dead>] 
to get the "psi"-function and then,
measuring the "psi"-function, in 50%
of cases ...

- M. Cirkovic,
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412147
- John Gribbin, "Doomsday Device", published in 
'Analog', January 22, 1985.