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- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 11 months ago:
I’m not so sure. I think a degree of shut up and calculate if you actually want to get a physicists level understanding, a large degree. But I strongly believe that it’s no harder to give a clever layman a working understanding of the underlying concepts, in purely conceptual terms. Honestly, I think the reason the quantum mechanics has been so prone to pop-sci charlatans is that legitimate science communicators keep trying to explain it in interpretation-agnostic terms, which makes it sound far more mystical and paradoxical than it is.
- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 11 months ago:
The various interpretations help in processing the math
In the same sense that the territory helps in processing the map, I suppose.
but isn’t the same as understanding - there are a bunch of fundamental facts about quantum mechanics that we just don’t understand, even though we know the elements exist, that they happen, and even how we can take advantage of them.
I’m not sure what you mean here; discussions of interpretation are literally about understanding these facts.
The difference between quantum mechanics and other high level theories like relativity is actually quite large, because the higher level interactions all derive from quantum level states and interactions. At the point where question marks really start popping up (weak and strong nuclear forces, gravity, dark matter &/ energy) it’s almost always a matter of quantum mechanics getting involved and being weird.
Going to have to disagree with you here, relativity, both special and general, get just as weird without any need to invoke quantum physics. And they’re not the only one. The only difference is that we have a general consensus on how to interpret them, which we don’t with QM.
My quantum mechanics professor started our first lecture with “if you think you understand quantum mechanics you do not understand quantum mechanics”, because there are still some really big question marks around our understanding of it. Especially what in the fuck spin actually is.
I think this is equivocating a bit; there is a difference between the things we don’t understand about quantum physics, and the things we just straight up don’t know. I think it’s possible to understand quantum physics, with the caveat that understanding means recognizing that there are things about it that we simply do not know.
- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 11 months ago:
IMO, the perceived inscrutability of quantum mechanics is mostly the result of the dominance of the “shut up and calculate” approach to the question of interpretation.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand why focusing on the math and ignoring the rest is a good approach to have when you’re actually doing practical scientific work in the field. But if you’re wanting quantum physics to “make sense”, then you’re asking about what it actually says about the underlying reality, and that’s a question that requires thinking about interpretations of QM.
Once you start thinking about it in terms of a particular interpretation (or category of interpretation), then QM makes as much sense as any other high level physical theory (certainly no worse than general relativity.)
- Comment on i got banned from games@hexbear for..... liking a game 1 year ago:
The mod log continues to be public.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Looks like you replied to the wrong post.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
Oh no, how dare they disagree!
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Why not just go back to reddit? It would be faster.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
We give what we get, mostly. Happy to have good faith conversations with people are willing to be good faith in return, but we attack when attacked.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
No way yet, but it’s supposed to be coming. In the mean time, if you block the major comms you’ll probably remove about 90% of the hexbear posts from your feed.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Why did you leave reddit? Everyone here thinks you’re a pest and most of you seem to be miserable interacting with us. Leave?
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
And why are you here? Fuck off back to reddit.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
“I keep lying about them, and they keep calling out my lies! Funny how they keep using the same tactic!”
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
We don’t want you to like us, and we know from experience you’re going to whine and complain no matter how polite we are, so enjoy the pig poop lib
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Or, maybe, people just hold different beliefs to you.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
This comment is the most “reddit liberal seeing real difference of opinion for the first time” thing I have ever seen.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Hexbear: why do so many people want to removed with us
Where did you get this idea from? We know damn well why: you’re a bunch of coddled libs who are used to the reddit admins protecting you from seeing any views outside the USA overton windows, and you’re now freaking out at seeing real difference of opinion.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
So you’ve moved onto the “straight up lying” phase of cope.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
Lots of bad takes (pariculary genocide apologism)
We’re not going to apologise that we don’t believe your “white genocide” conspiracy theory.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
It also doesn’t help when the Chinese are taught in school to love their party and country, view the party as their own parents and not question them, that they become such snowflakes when people criticise their government. It becomes pretty easy to trigger them with just a photo/keyword. Either they blow up in your face, or if it’s on China’s platform the mods will come an delete the post/comment and give out bans.
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- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
I would have thought that, after the way your massive post demanding lemm.ee defederate with hexbear because they were mean to you got you resoundingly told to touch grass by both instances, you would have given it a rest.
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
According to anti-socialists, that’s exactly what it is.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
How dare those tanks not run over that man! Don’t they understand that freedom is when you just plow into people like US security forces do.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
So you support the genocide in Donbas?
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
So you believe in White Genocide?
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
“These two groups disagree with me, that means they must agree with each other!”
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
You have a very strange idea of “without provocation”
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
Examples of what? People disagreeing with you?
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
What are you talking about? Political ‘moderates’ introduce and accept capital punishment and useful applications of brutality all the time.
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
No
