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Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality by benibela on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:41AM (#34029382)
But then the observer might get entangled with the system, and then the observer is in an unknown state

Who is observing the observer?

Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality by sirsinsalot on Saturday December 17, 2022 @12:38PM (#34030077)
What, not who.
Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality by dkersten on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:37PM (#34030725)
> then the observer is in an unknown state

So?

> Who is observing the observer?

No “who”, but anything that interacts with it.

Things happen whether or not you’re around to see them. Things interacted millions of years ago and they will continue to interact until the heat death of the universe. The tree falls in the woods regardless of if anybody is there to witness it. No credible peer-reviewed research has ever claimed that the observer is anything more than a physical process or interaction. It’s the quantum consciousness woo woo pseudoscientists who anthropomorphise “observer” to mean a conscious observer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(quantum_physics)