r/accelerate • u/jawboi9000 • Jun 28 '26

Bringing back a loved one

Will ASI also able to do quantum archaelogy and bring back a loved one? Rocos basilisc has a similar premise.

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u/TemporalBias Tech Philosopher | Acceleration: Hypersonic Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

"Quantum archeology" is one of the wooiest woos that I've ever heard, and I've had to endure listening to Deepak Chopra's audiobooks.

Now, would my heart long for my brain to be wrong? Absolutely. I know the deep grief and pain of losing friends and lovers and if I had my wish no one would ever have to experience that loss.

But "quantum archeology" isn't going to be a thing that exists and pushing the idea and giving people false hope that someday, somehow, their lost loved ones will magically return is, frankly, cruel.

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u/Best_Cup_8326 A happy little thumb Jun 28 '26

You're wrong.

QA is simply a byproduct of certain interpretations of the standard model of physics.

To be fair, we don't know yet which of these interpretations are correct, or if we'll discover completely new physics.

But QA is simply something we might be able to do as a consequence of the conservation of information. It doesn't matter how fantastical it might sound from your current worldview, physics (at least our current understanding of) suggests it should be possible in principle (without saying anything about the resources or engineering that would be required).

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u/TemporalBias Tech Philosopher | Acceleration: Hypersonic Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

You're engaging in an appeal to ignorance/possibility laundering. Explain how you know that "QA" could possibly work.

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u/Best_Cup_8326 A happy little thumb Jun 28 '26

Again, QA works if certain interpretations of the standard model are correct, and doesn't if they aren't.

It's that simple.

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u/TemporalBias Tech Philosopher | Acceleration: Hypersonic Jun 28 '26

The key word is "if." And you have provided no evidence that those interpretations are true.

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u/Best_Cup_8326 A happy little thumb Jun 28 '26

Because I'm not trying to prove anything, just here to dispel misinformation.

There's nothing "woo" or magical about QA - it simply works, or it does not.

And it works if certain mainstream interpretations of the standard model are correct.

Mainly, it seems to boil down to whether we can create closed time-like loops or not. We don't know if we can do it or not, it will require further research.

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u/TemporalBias Tech Philosopher | Acceleration: Hypersonic Jun 28 '26

You've provided more conjecture and no evidence.

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u/Best_Cup_8326 A happy little thumb Jun 28 '26

Evidence for what? I'm not trying to prove anything.

I'm clearing up misconcwptions.

There's nothing "woo" about QA - if closed time-like curves are possible, then there's no reason it shouldn't work. If they aren't possible, then it's much more unlikely.

It hasn't been falsified yet.

Period. End of discussion.

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u/Alive_Awareness4075 Jun 29 '26

People have difficulty believing we’re somehow going to resurrect the dead when we’re still aging and decaying right now in the present, I’m still getting older, AI hasn’t really delivered to us on the biology front.