gbzm
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- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 3 days ago:
I’ve been in similar situations in large or semi-large chat channels when you want to adhere to something and give the possibility to others to adhere similarly without flooding the channel with messages simply saying “me too”. Sometimes 💯 works, but it sometimes doesn’t.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 5 days ago:
Ah so I think I sort of conflated RQM and MWI because I thought it was all about Everett’s other paper “relative state formulation of qm”.
I thought on top of an ad hoc rehabilitation of physical realism, the universal state also did something for the consistency. Something like all the density operators may be expressed as partial traces of the operator describing the their systems’ union, in order for everything to be consistent, and the ‘largest’ operator describes the state of the universe or something. I’ll check out your sources next insomnia
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 5 days ago:
My understanding might be a bit superficial, but I thought the whole point of the MWI was to make explicit the fact that states are relative? To me the rationale was that states are relative and if we simultaneously describe relative states and their observers we can translate the shrödinger+born-rule in a density-operator+partial-trace-rule and make the wave function collapse physical (aka unitary) through branching and decoherence, even though that’s mathematically tedious and in practice people will keep using projectors (1). States being relative means their physical reality is somewhat broken but locality is mostly saved (2), so then we postulate that they derive from a universal wave function to rehabilitate some form of physical realism (3). As to (4), isn’t it solved if you assume that Schrödinger’s equation is actually the less fundamental formalism since it’s only valid for systems that are unrealistically isolated?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They’re not entirely wrong, of course, but they’re really stretching this simple stereotype into some deep difference in psychologies and assigning it to this “concept of a marketplace of idea vs. rationality and enlightenment” oversimplification. Honestly to a European person who’s lived in America, they mainly sound like an American who’s angry with the state of the US and who’ve completely idealized Europe as a result. Which would be fine if they hadn’t worded what amounts to an overindulged shower thought in such a peremptory fashion.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It looks more like the blowback is less about one side being better or worse than the other, and more about this whole thesis sounding like the most obnoxious fourteen year old you’ve ever met larping as a sociologist with zero substantiation to their sweeping statements
- Comment on Physics! 3 months ago:
Why is the mercury arc rectifier getting a “what the fuck”? I don’t know much about them, are they more magic than glowing rocks, runes, levitation and demon cores?
- Comment on Dawg... 3 months ago:
It’s ok: you only get this value every two years. That way, even though it’s a decrease from the previous year you have actually no idea whether the figure is higher than two years before
- Comment on French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu 3 months ago:
It is.
It could be construed as a form of constitutional brutalism: in theory the president is free to name whomever he chooses, however he is expected to choose someone from the parliementary majority.But this is the first time in the history of the current constitution that the parliamentary majority isn’t an absolute majority or cannot form an absolute majority coalition. The consequence is that they can’t systematically no-confidence-oust any head of government they don’t approve of, and basically enforce this expectation directly.
So Macron can just name someone from his minority (3rd biggest group even) every time a prime minister is ousted, and pretend he’s not violating the spirit of the constitution if not the letter. He can frame it as defending the republic against “extremes” even though the relative parliamentary majority he’s “defending against” is just a run-of-the-mills leftist alliance between parties that span from barely liberal to a bit more angry, but not extreme even by the state council’s own definition. The second biggest group, however, is actually the far-right authoritarian racist party founded by literal ex-SS that’s going to win a presidential election at some point if he doesn’t stop helping them with his own constant authoritarian propaganda and infuriating antidemocratic behavior.
- Comment on French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu 3 months ago:
Lecornu quit first thing this morning
- Comment on French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu 3 months ago:
Seven over his two terms. Three since his party lost its relative majority last July
- Comment on French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu 3 months ago:
“New” in this case means almost literally a permutation of the same people, with two ‘additions’ from previous failed governments.
- Comment on oui oui 3 months ago:
The tweet is a lie, the photo is from a novelty shop (thx falcunculus@jlai.lu)
- Comment on oui oui 3 months ago:
Merci pour Le fact-check
- Comment on oui oui 3 months ago:
“Une graine dans le bocal piment” ?
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 4 months ago:
I don't know about this Milhouse business, but he did have some very salient point: that time he gushed blood uncontrollably from bis neck and died has raised serious doubt in my previously staunch anti-gun disposition. Now I have to manually remind myself that most gun violence victims are unfortunately not Charlie Kirk.
- Comment on Practical Magic 4 months ago:
Maybe one of them performed their spell over the dark web, with bitcoin as sacrifice.
- Comment on Aged like milk 4 months ago:
Tolerance is not an absolute principle, it's just a social contract. People who breach it aren't protected by it; end of paradox.
- Comment on Aged like milk 4 months ago:
That and making, in what should be seen as the sole crowning jewel upon a veritable turdwagon of a life as a professional waste of carbon, the best argument in favor of gun violence since Brian Thompson strolled past St Luigi
- Comment on Aged like milk 4 months ago:
At least he died doing what he loved
