Re: Help support non-crazy scientist?

Gruff wrote:
On Jun 12, 10:35 pm, Ben Crowell
<crowel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One of the strangest
results (which I don't pretend to understand) is that it's possible
to have negative information. By receiving such information, you'd
know less than you had before you received it!

I can think of quite a few situations where I've ended up knowing less
after someone's told me something.

;o)

Shifting to non-ironic mode, I think the negative information idea only
works if you're using a quantum computer (i.e., one that stores
information as qubits) to receive information that's transmitted
as a stream of qubits (e.g., via quantum entanglement). Since the
human brain isn't a quantum computer (uses bits, not qubits), I
think all humans on this newsgroup are automatically immune.

But hey, I think I feel a story idea coming out of this!

.

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