YouTube – Quantum Shorts 2 – Better Faster Stronger Lonelier

What if a classical computer and a quantum computer got talking?

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This reading is Better, Faster, Stronger, Lonelier by Alvaro Buendia, a PhD student in Nanophotonics in Madrid, Spain. The quantum concepts are computing and wavefunction. If an artificial intelligence in a quantum computer approaches a human-like self-awareness, will it also suffer human emotions like loneliness?

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YouTube – Quantum Shorts 2 – Entangled Servitude

What do you do when you find out that what you’re buying is produced unethically?

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This reading is Entangled Servitude by Thomas M Brooks, a high school science and maths teacher who loves exploring the infinite possibilities of parallel universes. The quantum concepts are cryptography and entanglement.

The minions of money will always find a way to exploit powerless people.

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YouTube – Quantum Shorts 2 – Shinichi’s Tricycle

What if the two Hungarians hadn’t warned Einstein, who then hadn’t warned the president, who then hadn’t started the Manhattan Project?

These readings are short, mostly eight minutes or so. Don’t worry about getting tied up.

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Today’s reading is Shinichi’s Tricycle by Ariadne Blayde, a New Orleans based author and playwright. Its quantum concepts are the act of observation, the atom, entanglement, multiverse and Schrodinger’s cat.

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