gbzm
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- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 5 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 It is indeed 4 weeks ago:
Poor thing’s ear is connected to its tail
- Comment on constants r fun 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on constants r fun 5 weeks ago:
Nope, that’s the red strip on the left.
- Comment on constants r fun 5 weeks ago:
Reverse image search gave this pop-sci article from 2009:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1283
Slightly different though. No grey part, though the legend argues that deutérium is unstable below the horizontal line, and “We are here” in smaller font
- Comment on French Anatomy 1 month ago:
What the fuck? It’s knee is equivalent to pour wrist??
- Comment on Is our President a pedophile? 3 months ago:
*rapist
- 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 Cynical and pessimistic people. 🫤 3 months ago:
I’m not very big on life myself, but to me that’s only superficially what this is about. To me it seems the negative reaction you get is because “life is boring” is an expression of personal suffering first, and a judgment about an objective, intrinsic quality of the very concept of existence second. So you have to be careful when you want to argue that boredom is not an intrinsic quality of existence because you end up invalidating an expression of personal suffering, which is generally considered gauche.
Second, your arguments in favour of life not being boring generalizes conditions that may not be everyone’s. The ability to change jobs, move, find new friends, etc. is not necessarily universal. People who struggle with depression, in particular, may feel that your argument boils down to “pull yourself by your bootstraps”. People who are in situations of economic or social servitude will feel it comes from a situation of personal privilege.
I wouldn’t want to convince you that life is boring, it’s a good thing that you enjoy your existence, and the very fact that you enjoy it is a proof by example. That said, I think your approach to trying to make people find good in their own lives by convincing them sight unseen that their bad experience with it is their own fault is misguided.
- 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 oui oui 4 months ago:
The tweet is a lie, the photo is from a novelty shop (thx falcunculus@jlai.lu)
- Comment on oui oui 4 months ago:
Merci pour Le fact-check
- Comment on oui oui 4 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