Schrodinger's data is easier to put policies on.

· Bits and Bobs 9/8/25
  • Schrodinger's data is easier to put policies on.
    • Imagine an impenetrable box.
    • Whatever data and code you put in it, no signals can ever escape to the outside world.
    • Once sealed it can never be unsealed.
    • That means that no matter what happens in that box, it can't have any consequences in the outside world.
    • In this thought experiment, it doesn't matter what computation happens in the box.
    • Because nothing can communicate out of the box.
    • That means that arbitrary computation is safe.
    • Now imagine that instead there's a box where data and code can flow inside, but never back out.
    • The only way for information to escape is to be beamed directly into your eyeballs.
    • You can still allow arbitrary computation.