SmoothOperator
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- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 3 days ago:
Actually turns out the blue zone thing is pretty dubious.
- Comment on thank you fb 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Congrats!
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 months ago:
Careful research.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 3 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 3 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? 4 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? 4 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? 4 months ago:
What makes relativity the hardest thought experiment?
- Comment on Do you meditate? 4 months ago:
Cool! What’s your take on the empirical method then, considering the relationship between reality and the subject?
- Comment on Do you meditate? 4 months ago:
Yes, it’s pretty important to me for mental hygiene and self-control.
But what do you mean it’s “a bigger deal than science”? Do you do science as well?
- Comment on Scientists just made the first time crystal you can see 4 months ago:
Sure, that makes sense, but it feels like they’re implying “energy” when they say “electricity”.
- Comment on Scientists just made the first time crystal you can see 4 months ago:
Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity.
No, no, no, these crystals still need energy to move. They talk about “all you have to do is shine a light on it”, yes, that adds energy.
Cool results, but yet another failure of science communication.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 5 months ago:
Wait till you hear about how fecal transplants can make you braver
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
mmmmm, no, very unwise
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 5 months ago:
In Icelandic ð cannot be used at the start of a word, so this looks really weird, but I guess it sorta gets there phonetically?
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 6 months ago:
Why does AI use this beige background color?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 7 months ago:
Happy to hear it! It’s very different from the other Hitman games, but maybe that works for you?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 7 months ago:
Damn, that’s a choice. How is it?
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 7 months ago:
Is RNG always bullshit?
Do you feel like that’s the case in Blue Prince?
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 7 months ago:
No, that sounds like a terrible game. How exactly is this relevant?