Living in the Multiverse, less interesting than the fate of bitcoin in El Salvador?
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the universe's age. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.
“Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip.” Google, Dec. 9. Via Marginal Revolution, This appears as item #6 in the list of daily lists, below #5: “El Salvador to scale back bitcoin due to IMF pressure.” Hmm...