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#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
Lex Fridman Podcast
Does Knowledge Change Your Subjective Experience of Making Decisions?
If every time I was contemplating a decision, this machine had printed out an envelope where I could open it and see that it knew my decision, I think that actually would change my subjective experience of making decisions. It transforms it fundamentally because say that machine does tell you that it can predict perfectly and yet there is this deep experience of free will and then that changes the question completely. Yeah, or there could be a religious experience with it too. Or the knowledge that this machine had predicted everything I would do, it might drive me completely insane, but at any rate it would change my experience to not just discuss such a machine as a thought experiment but to actually see it.Yeah, there you
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