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The easy comparison for devs is quantum computing is like git branching. The big question being the PR approval process.
by fidotron 2y ago
The easy comparison for devs is quantum computing is like git branching.
The big question being the PR approval process.
- whimsicalism 2y agono that's not a good comparison for MWI, it's more continuous
- fidotron 2y agoThat sounds like you having a narrow understanding of git - there is no way it is not continuous.
- whimsicalism 2y agogit branches are not continuous
- fidotron 2y agoYou mean as opposed to discrete? (And not in the usual sense of continuous) There is nothing stopping you putting probability distributions in git and branching them.
- whimsicalism 2y agoi think we are just not connecting in what we are saying, nbd
- dartos 2y agoGit operates on commits (branches are really nicknames for specific commits with some extra features), which are discrete steps. That’s what’s stopping you from doing anything continuous in git.
- amelius 2y agoMaybe our consciousness also branches, and all branches are approved.
- FergusArgyll 2y agoAh, so it's all pointers after all...