Ah, thank you! That is it. Just as biting and dark as I remember it.
Greg Egan also has a number of stories about people who rebelled against a "many worlds" universe by porting human cognition to run on "Quantum Single Processors," which would carefully isolate themselves from the universe until they had made a single decision across every possible timeline. This didn't prevent them from being "branched" by outside factors, but it at least gave them an approximation of free will.
Greg Egan writes true sci-fi. Exploring what-ifs further than anyone has explored them, and putting them up in story format so you don't have to be Einstein.
ekidd|4 years ago
Greg Egan also has a number of stories about people who rebelled against a "many worlds" universe by porting human cognition to run on "Quantum Single Processors," which would carefully isolate themselves from the universe until they had made a single decision across every possible timeline. This didn't prevent them from being "branched" by outside factors, but it at least gave them an approximation of free will.
medstrom|4 years ago