[ExI] Google’s Willow Quantum Chip: Proof of the Multiverse?

[John Clark]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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>> *Free will is an idea so bad it's not even wrong, it's 100% triple
>> distilled extra-virgin gibberish. But that's not the reason I called super
>> determinism idiotic, it's because a greater violation of Occam's Razor is
>> impossible to imagine.  *
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> *>**Only certain poor definitions are gibberish. However, there are
> perfectly sensible and meaningful definitions of free will. For example,
> the kind which is implied by computational irreducibility *
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*Yeah, it would only take you a few minutes to write a computer program to
find the first even number that is not the sum of two primes and then stop,
but what will the computer actually do, will it stop? Nobody knows, all you
can do is watch it and see what it does, and you might need to watch it
forever. But if that's your definition then you'd have to say that silly
little program has free will, and that is so wide ranging that your
definition is not useful. *

*I can think of two other definitions of free will that are not gibberish
but unfortunately are also not useful: *
*1) "Free Will" is a sound made by the mouth.*
*2)  **"Free Will" means you can't be certain what you're going to do next
until you actually do it. *

*John K Clark*
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