I just consulted 54 trillion "people" who agree that this is idiotic.
I just consulted 54 trillion "people" who agree that this is idiotic.
@Natasha_Jay I tossed a coin to decide whether to invest in in this AI startup.
But then I realized that wasn't very scientific, so I tossed a million coins and went with the majority decision.
I think I could scale this to answering the "hard" questions in physics or economics by scaling up to a trillion coins. That's a lot of coins, so possibly I will replace them with what I call "soft coins" which only exist only as memory addresses in the cloud.
Alternately, we can scale down to just a few hundred coins that we can trap in a chaotic air vortex. We'll image the coins millions of times per second, emulating a large mass roll but in a more compact form that we can scale to an almost unlimited extent. We'll call it the Certainty Engine. Once we reach 20 petaflips we should have effective certainty on any question. Does god exist? Is the meaning of life 42?