{"id":343,"date":"2008-07-28T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2008-07-28T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T20:49:10","slug":"quantum-computing-since-democritus-lecture-18-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 18: Free Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec18.html\">this latest lecture<\/a>, please don&#8217;t blame me: I had no choice!  (Yeah, yeah, I know.  You presumably have no choice in criticizing it either.  But it can&#8217;t hurt to ask!)<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who&#8217;ve been reading this blog since the dark days of 2005 might recognize some of the content from <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=30\">this post<\/a> about Newcomb&#8217;s Paradox, and <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=85\">this one<\/a> about the Free Will Theorem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t like this latest lecture, please don&#8217;t blame me: I had no choice! (Yeah, yeah, I know. You presumably have no choice in criticizing it either. But it can&#8217;t hurt to ask!) Those of you who&#8217;ve been reading this blog since the dark days of 2005 might recognize some of the content from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democritus","category-metaphysical-spouting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}