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

[Jason Resch]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2025, 5:14 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > Somehow, the creator of the universe who set everything up
> super-deterministically knew I would decide to use the digits of Pi
>
> No such knowledge is necessary.  It may be that you were destined to
> use those digits, but just like we can't always know how long a
> Turing-style program will run, that you would use those digits may not
> be knowable without a chain of computation that...well, the universe
> itself may have been the fastest possible chain of computation to
> achieve said knowledge.
>

I'm sorry I am not following. How is it you are proposing the universe rigs
up the photons to have the right polarizations to provide the expected
statistics, when setting the polarizer filters to match the digits of
sqrt(19)?

Jason


> Then there are the things that truly are random, that don't become
> determined before they exist.  No foreknowledge is possible, but also,
> they are not in a superposition: they are one state or another from
> the moment they happen, even if nearby observers might not know which
> until later.
>
> Same objections to all your other claims of required foreknowledge.
>
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