SmoothOperator
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- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 4 days ago:
Is it fair to say they’re “doing nothing to stop it”? They have indeed been shutting banning users for this, according to themselves millions of them.
Not saying it’s enough, but it’s hardly nothing.
- Comment on love venn diagrams🫶 4 days ago:
It does, thanks for sharing. Wishing her good health!
- Comment on love venn diagrams🫶 5 days ago:
Fascinating setup. Does she have sex with women outside your marriage, if I may be so forward?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla via Steam Link on my TV, good fun. I’ve been learning Icelandic over the last few years, and was surprised that the Norse background NPC’s actually speak it! Very cool to be able to understand the background conversations, quite immersive too.
(As far as we know Icelandic is essentially identical to old Norse, spoken across Scandinavia a thousand years ago.)
- Comment on Scientists may have found the holy grail of quantum computing 2 weeks ago:
Not really. It needs to apply unitary operators to elements in Hilbert space, which is essentially multiplying matrices onto vectors.
Which you could do by multiplying the involved numbers one by one, as most classical methods would, but then you’re missing the point of using a quantum computer.
- Comment on Scientists may have found the holy grail of quantum computing 2 weeks ago:
It would be a terrible machine for that. Never use a quantum computer to multiply numbers.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 3 weeks ago:
Guerilla marketing?
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 4 weeks ago:
I am! Tell me who it is, and I’ll kick their butts.
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 4 weeks ago:
QC has well-founded expected applications within chemistry, factorisation and optimization. Anything else is hyperbole at this point.
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 4 weeks ago:
No serious quantum computer scientist or industry person would claim QC “solves everything”. Who is “they”?
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 5 weeks ago:
Or you could embrace the vision, play on Hardcore with no map marker or compass, accept that travelling through war-torn lands is dangerous, feel the rush of galloping through the woods knowing a Cuman ambush could set you back 30 minutes, accepting that quests can fail, accepting that people will react to you stinking like blood and horse.
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 1 month ago:
Actually turns out the blue zone thing is pretty dubious.
- Comment on thank you fb 1 month ago:
Is the Leviathan waking a good thing or a bad thing? It’s a biblical thing right? They seem to be critical of the secret world government’s strategy to freeze it to death with an artificial snow storm.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 1 month ago:
Interesting framing. But without measurements there isn’t really a need for different interpretations, is there? If that’s what you mean by “in the middle of an experiment”.
I will happily agree that before measurement, it’s very useful to think of the system as existing in many states at the same time.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 1 month ago:
I don’t know, Many Worlds always led to more confusion than Copenhagen for me. But I suppose that’s a matter of taste since they’re equivalent.
As per the relationship between measurement and entanglement, from an empiricist viewpoint all quantum mechanical terms are related to measurement. If entanglement didn’t affect the outcome of measurements, it wouldn’t exist.
Indeed, you can disentangle an entangled system, which of course will change the outcome of measurements - that’s how you know it’s been disentangled.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 1 month ago:
Copenhagen interpretation doesn’t break down for quantum erasure. Upon measurement you collapse the total quantum state into a result where the two measurements are consistent, that’s simply what entanglement means.
The timing of experiments, and the choice of what to measure, are elements ultimately irrelevant to the above statement, as the quantum erasure experiment demonstrates.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 1 month ago:
Unlike the Copenhagen interpretation, it does not privilege measurement over other types of interactions between systems.
Hmm, you could say it instead privileges the subjective experience over other types of interaction. There’s no reason in principle why you couldn’t experience every “world” at the same time, in the same way a measurement could in principle return all possible results at the same time.
But you don’t. Somehow your experience of reality is above unitary time evolution, even though “you” aren’t.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 1 month ago:
Well, there’s grifters in both camps, but the quantum computing potential was scientifically proven with Shor’s algorithm decades ago, while nobody knows if AI will go anywhere from here.
So also fundamentally dissimilar.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 months ago:
To be fair, it’s way better than 50/50, but of course no guarantees still.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 3 months ago:
Congrats!
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 months ago:
To me it feels more about consistency. The world aligns with your expressed ideology.
If you’re using the sneaking and non-lethal tools the world becomes a place that believes in the value of life, if you murder indiscriminately the world becomes a place of punishment, where nobody is innocent and the only way forward is to let a plague descend on the land.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 months ago:
Interesting, I’ve never considered choices and gameplay as separate things. Isn’t it more, I don’t know, immersive if gameplay and story are unified?
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 months ago:
Non-lethal also means avoidance rather than conflict. But ultimately, “bad ending” is subjective. You still save the princess, it’s just a more murdery vibe.
Also you get to kill the baddies yourself, it’s the good ending where most are killed for you right?
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 5 months ago:
Careful research.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 5 months ago:
You can’t really call it slop just because you disagree with their views and representations of things.
Their stuff is carefully researched and sourced, human crafted and open to critique. Whether they’re correct in their assessments or not is of course up for debate, but it’s good craftsmanship and they show their work.
- Comment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified 5 months ago:
I guess that’s the joke - this is so stupid and obviously won’t work, but that perspective is subverted when it turns out to actually work, causing humour.
I quite like it.
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 5 months ago:
Also double slit experiment is not so much a thought experiment as it’s an experimental phenomenon that is hard to explain. Also Einsteins thought experiments are actual science, based on reality with actual results…
The double slit experiment was first invented as a thought experiment, and later was built as an actual experiment. It’s the same with relativity, first it was thought up, now it’s experimentally verified. So the examples from relativity you bring up are also more experimental phenomena than a thought experiments at this point.
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 5 months ago:
I have, I studied these ideas at university. I’m just curious what makes these thought experiments harder than e.g. the double slit experiment, Plato’s cave analogy or Rawls’ veil of ignorance?
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 5 months ago:
What makes relativity the hardest thought experiment?
- Comment on Do you meditate? 5 months ago:
Cool! What’s your take on the empirical method then, considering the relationship between reality and the subject?