According to one interpretation of quantum mechanics, machine intelligences could avoid future disasters by resetting their memories (Image: Michael Cogliantry / Photonica / Getty)
GREAT news, there may be a way to avoid a looming disaster. All you need to do is forget all about it by “resetting” your memory.
That’s the claim of physicist Saibal Mitra at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and it is predicated on the existence of parallel universes.
The “many worlds” concept is an interpretation of quantum theory – our best description of the microscopic world of atoms and their constituents. Many worlds takes literally quantum theory’s idea that a quantum entity like an…
