An ingenious friend just pointed out a likely much larger point of influence of quantum particle-level noise on humanity: the randomness in DNA recombination during meiosis (gamete formation) is effectively driven by single molecular machine and the individual crossovers etc likely strongly depends on the Brownian-level noise. This would mean that some substantial part of people would have slightly different genetic makeup, from which I would expect substantial timeline divergence over 100s of years at most (measuring differences on the level of human society).
My impression is that you’re arguing that quantum randomness creates very large differences between branches. However, couldn’t it still be the case that even more differences would be preferable? I’m not sure how much that first argument would impact the expected value of trying to create even more divergences.
An ingenious friend just pointed out a likely much larger point of influence of quantum particle-level noise on humanity: the randomness in DNA recombination during meiosis (gamete formation) is effectively driven by single molecular machine and the individual crossovers etc likely strongly depends on the Brownian-level noise. This would mean that some substantial part of people would have slightly different genetic makeup, from which I would expect substantial timeline divergence over 100s of years at most (measuring differences on the level of human society).
My impression is that you’re arguing that quantum randomness creates very large differences between branches. However, couldn’t it still be the case that even more differences would be preferable? I’m not sure how much that first argument would impact the expected value of trying to create even more divergences.
Yeah, this makes sense, thanks.