[ExI] big cat?

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2015-12-29 16:46, spike wrote:
> Well ja.  But if I had a 54 cm cat in a box and didn’t know if he was 
> dead until I open it, I would still bring along Mister Remington just 
> to make sure no quantum uncertainty would leap out of there and 
> disembowel my philosophical ass.

Classical guns are so boring, projecting (1/sqrt(2))[|live cat>+|dead 
cat>] onto 1*|dead cat>. Not even unitary. Use a quantum Remington 
instead, rotating it into (1/sqrt(2))[|dead cat>+|grateful ex-dead cat>].


-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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