In my understanding of Many Worlds Interpretation, I’m under the impression that there should exist some measure in which the supercomputer accidentally computes 0 on a non zero logical trigger because too many quantum events happened to hit a bit and hence doesn’t blow up, and for that matter, the reverse: Too many too quantum events hit a bit, and turned a logically computed 0 into some other number. Presumably these chances are there, and they represent some small, non zero measure.
But as far as I can tell, the fact that this occurs seems to render a substantial premise of the question moot, because it means neither trigger hits 0 quantum measure, which is what we were postulating paying money to avoid.
So to verify this:
1: Am I correct that MWI does imply that there will be some quantum measure left even when using the logical trigger?
2: Does this actually render a substantial part of the original scenario moot, or does it still apply for reasons I don’t understand?
That depends if you have some kind of “mangled worlds” hypothesis (in short, an hypothesis that worlds with a too low probability will be unstable and collapse due to contamination from “nearby” worlds).
As long as we don’t know where the Born rule comes from in MWI, it’s hard to say if all worlds are “real” and how much “real” they are, or if there is some kind of boundary below which the world isn’t “real” for practical purpose (like, not stable enough to allow a consciousness to exist in it).
In my understanding of Many Worlds Interpretation, I’m under the impression that there should exist some measure in which the supercomputer accidentally computes 0 on a non zero logical trigger because too many quantum events happened to hit a bit and hence doesn’t blow up, and for that matter, the reverse: Too many too quantum events hit a bit, and turned a logically computed 0 into some other number. Presumably these chances are there, and they represent some small, non zero measure.
But as far as I can tell, the fact that this occurs seems to render a substantial premise of the question moot, because it means neither trigger hits 0 quantum measure, which is what we were postulating paying money to avoid.
So to verify this:
1: Am I correct that MWI does imply that there will be some quantum measure left even when using the logical trigger?
2: Does this actually render a substantial part of the original scenario moot, or does it still apply for reasons I don’t understand?
That depends if you have some kind of “mangled worlds” hypothesis (in short, an hypothesis that worlds with a too low probability will be unstable and collapse due to contamination from “nearby” worlds).
As long as we don’t know where the Born rule comes from in MWI, it’s hard to say if all worlds are “real” and how much “real” they are, or if there is some kind of boundary below which the world isn’t “real” for practical purpose (like, not stable enough to allow a consciousness to exist in it).
Yes.
It depends—those willing to go all the way up to quantum suicide are fine with very very low measure, but others might not go there.