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Also, chaos theory is all about events that cannot be predicted because the outcome varies wildly depending on very small changes in the initial conditions. So if you can't determine the exact initial conditions then you can't even get an accurate estimate of the outcome, no matter how good your prediction methods are.
 
yoko said:
I may or may not be slightly intoxicated...

But is an AI prediction based on who believes it more than what will actually happen?

That could steer things in general population and cause them to happen
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Tomorrowland and Payback (*** whoops. Edited to correct Paycheck with Ben Affleck, not Payback with Mel Gibson) are 2 movies with that as the premise.
 
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Synov said:
Also, chaos theory is all about events that cannot be predicted because the outcome varies wildly depending on very small changes in the initial conditions. So if you can't determine the exact initial conditions then you can't even get an accurate estimate of the outcome, no matter how good your prediction methods are.
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You're missing my point. I'm not talking about predicting. Or calculating. I mean actual direct observation.

The areas of "uncertainty" (in these areas the location of a particle are not just "unknown", the particle is literally in a nearly infinite number of locations simultaneously) these areas are very small and meaningless to a person. But these areas are real and can be described and they do not exist in only three dimensions. Time is an element of this. I'm thinking that if the location of a subatomic particle in very small scale space-time is "uncertain", there is an element of small scale time travel available in these kinds of quantum computations. The size of that scale is much much smaller than the scale needed to evaluate an outcome, but I'm wondering what would happen if an advanced AI were running on a highly advanced quantum computer (in the future) and that AI were able to function in time frames that we cannot. Would that AI be able to glimpse a short distance into the future?
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
The areas of "uncertainty" (in these areas the location of a particle are not just "unknown", the particle is literally in a nearly infinite number of locations simultaneously) these areas are very small and meaningless to a person.
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QM states that a particle *before observation* is in a superposition of states, yes. It also states that there is a limit to how much of certain pairs of properties of an object we can determine, like position and momentum. You can determine the exact position of a particle, or its exact momentum, but not both. This is due to the wave-like nature of matter, not superposition.
Nathan the Machinist said:
But these areas are real and can be described and they do not exist in only three dimensions. Time is an element of this. I'm thinking that if the location of a subatomic particle in very small scale space-time is "uncertain", there is an element of small scale time travel available in these kinds of quantum computations.
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I think you're mixing QM with general relativity, but these two theories have a conflicting view of time and have not yet been reconciled. QM does not imply time travel. The only related work I'm aware of attempts to unify QM with relativistic models that allow for time travel.
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The size of that scale is much much smaller than the scale needed to evaluate an outcome, but I'm wondering what would happen if an advanced AI were running on a highly advanced quantum computer (in the future) and that AI were able to function in time frames that we cannot. Would that AI be able to glimpse a short distance into the future?
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Quantum computing certainly allows for some very specific problems to be completed faster than normal computers can, and may be useful for physical simulations involving QM, but I don't think they have anything to do with time travel or observing the future.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
You're missing my point. I'm not talking about predicting. Or calculating. I mean actual direct observation.

The areas of "uncertainty" (in these areas the location of a particle are not just "unknown", the particle is literally in a nearly infinite number of locations simultaneously) these areas are very small and meaningless to a person. But these areas are real and can be described and they do not exist in only three dimensions. Time is an element of this. I'm thinking that if the location of a subatomic particle in very small scale space-time is "uncertain", there is an element of small scale time travel available in these kinds of quantum computations. The size of that scale is much much smaller than the scale needed to evaluate an outcome, but I'm wondering what would happen if an advanced AI were running on a highly advanced quantum computer (in the future) and that AI were able to function in time frames that we cannot. Would that AI be able to glimpse a short distance into the future?
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LETS FUCKING GO! Why not?
 
Casinostocks said:
Hence the expression, one shyting the bed so to speak, when that one ends up on page 5 of a CPK flash sale, with only 10 offerings!
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Johnny was busy.

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OK. Off to work now :)
 
dericdesmond said:
Some of these mfers at the gym getting a helluva thumb workout today, good thing they got a bench. Lord why cant I just mind my own business ahhhhhhh😢
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That's why I like having my son there. I can loudly comment to him "well, hopefully they don't have too many more sets of PHONE to do and we can get on soon". Usually nudges them along.
 
Lorien said:
when the rest of the internet is dead, Bladeforums will still be live!
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I heard the Internet is really only like 10% real people and the rest are bots.

I dunno. I've talked to yoko yoko and a guy who SAID he was Nathan the Machinist Nathan the Machinist but who even knows about the rest of you clowns?

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

who is even real?

 
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