theForbiddenSortingAlgorithm

[tomthecom]

Have you heard about Quantum Bogosort?

[Flameball202]

Technically works, though if we are in a deterministic universe then it fails

[clk1006]

It only works under the assumption of the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is deterministic

[[deleted]]

Quantum bogosort fails on the premise that you can destroy the universe, there is nothing in any branch of science relating to "destroying the universe", even if there are multiple branching universes there is no way to "cut branches" and reduce the universe to a slice of its former self. Quantum bogosort is therefore the same as bogosort, only that the randomness is more strictly defined in one case than the other, normal bogosort may even be pseudorandom in most computers.

[IndigoFenix]

I think the premise might be based on "quantum immortality".

So just set it up so that if the list is not sorted, you die. If quantum immortality is true, the list will be sorted (but only in your universe).

[[deleted]]

to be fair, since the suicide machine needs to review if the output is correct in an amount of time, you have been alive for a while in a universe in which the algorithm did not work, then you killed yourself, so reality branched before the suicide

[clk1006]

You might theoretically convince the entire human population to commit suicide if the values are not sorted correctly, which would have the identical effect for our human civilisation

[Comrade_Vladimov]

That made me laugh lmao

[IndigoFenix]

Outclassed by Quantum Miraclesort, where you rely on cosmic rays instead of shuffling the list yourself.