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Seth Lloyd Quotes

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can’t. We are still not clear on that Picture Quote #1

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics Picture Quote #1

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we’re sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here Picture Quote #1

$What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process Picture Quote #1$

Of course, not everybody’s willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, if the experiments don’t work, then it means it’s not science Picture Quote #1

Something else has happened with computers Picture Quote #1

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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics Picture Quote #1

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it Picture Quote #1

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time Picture Quote #1

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction Picture Quote #1

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial Picture Quote #1

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs Picture Quote #1

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Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it’s complex Picture Quote #1

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day Picture Quote #1

It’s also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable Picture Quote #1

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops Picture Quote #1

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy Picture Quote #1

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program Picture Quote #1

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We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control Picture Quote #1

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you’re hacking existing systems. You’re hijacking the computation that’s already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else’s computer Picture Quote #1

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don’t understand it. Just live with it. You don’t have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices Picture Quote #1

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can’t. We are still not clear on that Picture Quote #1

By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice Picture Quote #1

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody Picture Quote #1

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The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer Picture Quote #1

$What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process Picture Quote #1$

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important Picture Quote #1

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that’s what sex is about; that’s what history is about Picture Quote #1

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances Picture Quote #1

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can’t do better than including everything in the universe that’s potentially available Picture Quote #1

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Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can’t. We are still not clear on that. (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics (Seth Lloyd Quotes) According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we’re sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. (Seth Lloyd Quotes) What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Of course, not everybody’s willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, if the experiments don’t work, then it means it’s not science (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Something else has happened with computers (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it’s complex (Seth Lloyd Quotes) When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day (Seth Lloyd Quotes) It’s also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable (Seth Lloyd Quotes) The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy (Seth Lloyd Quotes) In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program (Seth Lloyd Quotes) We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control (Seth Lloyd Quotes) When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you’re hacking existing systems. You’re hijacking the computation that’s already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else’s computer (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Quantum mechanics is weird. I don’t understand it. Just live with it. You don’t have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can’t. We are still not clear on that (Seth Lloyd Quotes) By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody (Seth Lloyd Quotes) The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer (Seth Lloyd Quotes) What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process (Seth Lloyd Quotes) There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important (Seth Lloyd Quotes) Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that’s what sex is about; that’s what history is about (Seth Lloyd Quotes) In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances (Seth Lloyd Quotes) If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can’t do better than including everything in the universe that’s potentially available (Seth Lloyd Quotes)

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