{"id":378,"date":"2025-03-03T22:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T04:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2025-03-03T22:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T04:58:27","slug":"is-microsoft-going-to-crash-the-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Is Microsoft going to crash the simulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p><em>This is a highly speculative thought experiment<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Is there a finite upper bound to the computation power of reality?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If David Deutsch&#8217;s many-worlds interpretation is correct, quantum computers leverage computation power from parallel universes. A quantum computer with 1 million qubits would theoretically use 2^1 million parallel universes\u2014an unimaginably large number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If we live in a finite multiverse, what happens when we exceed its capacity?<\/p>\n<p>There are five possibilities:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"\">\n<li>Quantum computers don&#8217;t work as Deutsch suggests<\/li>\n<li>The many-worlds interpretation is incorrect (making this irrelevant)<\/li>\n<li>The many-worlds interpretation is correct, with infinite universes or infinite scaling<\/li>\n<li>There is a finite upper limit, but there is a protective computational ceiling<\/li>\n<li>There is an unprotected, finite upper limit to the number of universes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"\">In the fifth scenario, what happens if we reach or exceed the multiverse&#8217;s computational capacity?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Perhaps its something benign: the quantum computer decoheres and stops working, performance plateaus, or it simply starts behaving classically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But maybe, just maybe, something stranger happens.<\/p>\n<p>Could an overwhelmed multiverse start glitching? Could reality slow down? Crash and restart?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Perhaps we won&#8217;t have to wait very long to find out&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a highly speculative thought experiment Is there a finite upper bound to the computation power of reality? If David Deutsch&#8217;s many-worlds interpretation is correct, quantum computers leverage computation power from parallel universes. A &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}