Joseph C. Bardin

When I meet people I like, I feel obligated to tell them I’m an immortalist, because otherwise, how would they know? As one, a writer friend of some repute, told me: ‘You look normal.’ People want to know what it means to be an immortalist, and I usually say something like: an immortalist is someone who thinks you should live forever. Or: An immortalist is someone who thinks you should be able to live as long as you want to. But that doesn’t really tell enough.

Abstract A remarkable characteristic of quantum computing is the potential for reliable computation despite faulty qubits. This can be achieved through quantum error correction, which is typically implemented by repeatedly applying static syndrome checks, permitting correction of logical information. Recently, the development of time-dynamic approaches to error correction has enabled different codes and implementations that do not rely on static syndrome measurements.

Joseph Bardin · Follow Published in Predict · 3 min read · -- No discussion between immortalists is complete, it seems, without a hearty debate over what to call it. The it in question is immortality of course, but that hardly settles the matter, so don’t get your hopes up. We’ve got a long linguistic slog ahead of us, and there apparently is no avoiding it. What’s wrong with immortality, you might ask. You poor innocent. Obviously, it’s too obvious. Too on the nose, as we say in literary circles.