godelbrot

Norm will this App help me find local punks who would be interested in getting jacked off under the Queensborough Bridge for $15 a man? Asking for a friend.

Hey Max, I spent a lot of time thinking about the Quantum Suicide thought experiment and it got me thinking if you could use it as a kind of replacement for perfectly intelligent AI.

For example, instead of a perfectly intelligent AI used to play a particular stock perfectly for maximum profits (through buying and selling), would it work to have the Quantum Random Number Generator trigger a buying or selling action (buy if it outputs a 1, sell/hold if it outputs a 0) and then have the shotgun trigger on the outcome of that action (shotgun goes off if money is lost). Would you find yourself in the universe that the QRNG output the perfect buy/sell instructions? (assuming quantum suicide works in the first place!)

Or a password cracker, where the shotgun was programmed to go off if there is a failed password entry, and the QRNG binary is converted into standard character output. Would you find yourself alive only in the universe where the QRNG just happened to output the correct password?

With the standard experiment you find yourself (if it works!) in the universe that the QRNG only output Zeros (if the machine was programmed to trigger the shotgun if it output a 1), so essentially what I am asking is, do you think that it makes any difference to the possibility of the thought experiment working if the binary output is used to influence things in the world, and that the shotgun would trigger based on the outcome of those influences?

I wrote a little more in depth about the idea here:

https://medium.com/@godelbrot/the-deplorable-device-how-to-harness-quantum-suicide-to-become-insanely-rich-2820e98de1f6

Right, I have read the book (which I love!), and I am not intending on hooking a gun up to a QRNG any time soon :)

My question was IF it does work, do you think what I am proposing would ALSO work?

Thanks for doing this!