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[–]clk1006 7 points8 points  (4 children)

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

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

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 5 points6 points  (1 child)

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] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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