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By running the validation "in parallel", do you mean running it in each of the possible quantum "many worlds" in which validation takes place? If so, aren't yo
by andyjohnson0 11y ago
By running the validation "in parallel", do you mean running it in each of the possible quantum "many worlds" in which validation takes place?
If so, aren't you implicitly assuming that these other parallel worlds somehow draw on a shared pool of computing resource? This might be true [1], but equally there may not be a "behind the scenes" of reality at all.
[1] How would we know? Run a timing attack on the underlying compute infrastructure?
- kordless 11y agoI'm leaning toward the parallel universe hypothesis as well, except I'm thinking it's more like there are part-time processes that run in parallel, do their work, then exit after they come to some type of consensus of state. It would end up looking something like a bunch of containers running a game on your computer, processing all the other player's moves, arriving at consensus, sending that consensus to a central 'compute' spot where a global consensus took place, wait for a reply, then take what the global central thing said was a valid state of things. Rinse and repeat. Stick it all in blockchain in case there's a disagreement. I keep pointing out to people I can't make their beers (including glass) disappear while we're talking at a table. That this universe doesn't allow me to hack it (and presumably keeps others from hacking it) is a nice feature.
- andyjohnson0 11y agoIf the multiverse / physical reality has a "global central thing" then it has a scaling bottleneck, and we have a problem.