This is an excellent, thought-provoking article (it's a shame that it's probably not going to make it to the front page). It had never occurred to me that one could "game" life this way. Of course, I have my suspicions about the many-worlds interpretation (I think it's unlikely), so it's possible that the shotgun would kill you within the first few iterations of the QRNG and then you would never know that your experiment failed.
That said, without resorting to such morbid get-rich-quick schemes, I've wondered for a while if one could utilize interaction-free measurements to more optimally trade stocks. It can already be used (in theory) to detect live bombs without setting them off (https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114610/http://physics.il...). It seems that one could easily put a small device into a superposition of "buy" and "sell" states. I'd have to think about the details of this, but it might be possible...
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 10.8 ms ] threadThat said, without resorting to such morbid get-rich-quick schemes, I've wondered for a while if one could utilize interaction-free measurements to more optimally trade stocks. It can already be used (in theory) to detect live bombs without setting them off (https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114610/http://physics.il...). It seems that one could easily put a small device into a superposition of "buy" and "sell" states. I'd have to think about the details of this, but it might be possible...