Could Quantum Computing be the end of Fantasy Baseball?

[Gregg]

Zajfman, the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said on Friday that the question boils down to: “Could we create a system that would really make everything predictable?” As a physicist, Zajfman said, he believes that “there is always a cause and effect,” which would imply that, given enough processing power, a computer fed every detail of the world as we know it could bring those details to their logical conclusions, thereby predicting the future with perfect accuracy.

That would not be good for our game.

[Ken]

Zajfman, the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said on Friday that the question boils down to: “Could we create a system that would really make everything predictable?” As a physicist, Zajfman said, he believes that “there is always a cause and effect,” which would imply that, given enough processing power, a computer fed every detail of the world as we know it could bring those details to their logical conclusions, thereby predicting the future with perfect accuracy.

That would not be good for our game.

That's a physicist playing the theoretical game. In reality we aren't anywhere close to having a computer that can handle the billion x billion variables and their permutations that go into every day life. It's not something we'll have to be concerned about in our lifetime.

[johnnya24]

As a physicist, Zajfman said, he believes that “there is always a cause and effect,”

Why would he need to believe that?

[Steve 2.0]

I quit this year, so I don't really care.

[chancellor]

Sporer and Jason against the machine. Make it so.

[Gregg]

I quit this year, so I don't really care.

The machine knew that.

[Steve 2.0]

The machine knew that.

Touche.

[Gregg]

Touche.

You want to fence?!

[TranaGreg]

You want to fence?!

no, he was calling you a touche.

[Steve 2.0]

You want to fence?!

I've helped build a fence or two back in my youth. It's the Okie version of fencing.

So, no, I don't want to fence. I'm lazy.

[ironfist]

I've helped build a fence or two back in my youth. It's the Okie version of fencing.

So, no, I don't want to fence. I'm lazy.

He was trying to get you to buy some stolen loot, come on.

[Steve 2.0]

He was trying to get you to buy some stolen loot, come on.

Again, I'm lazy. You can have this shipment.