SmoothOperator
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- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 5 days ago:
I tried to get into it a while ago, but it felt so half-cooked. This weird voice-over with the mispronounced words, the obscure tech tree and overall progression, I don’t know…
It felt like a lot more work to get into than Factorio or Satisfactory did back in the day, with a smaller payoff.
Am I missing something?
- 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 Positivity 😇 1 month ago:
The largest amount of energy is released from fusing two hydrogens into helium. The atom in the comic looks much heavier than hydrogen.
Also a chain fusion reaction is required for an explosion. The comic just shows non-explosive ionisation.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 2 months ago:
Congrats!
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 2 months ago:
Why does area get to be especially fun and definite while length, its one-dimension-away sibling doesn’t?
Excellent question, and as you yourself allude to, it’s a question of bounds. If you can establish and upper and lower bound on a quantity and make them approach eachother, you can measure it.
On a finite 2d surface you can make absolute lower and upper bounds on any area - lower is zero, upper is the full surface. All areas are measurable. But on the same surface you can make a line infinitely squiggly and detailed, essentially drawing a fractal. So the upper bound on the length of a line is infinite. Which means not all lines have a measurably length.
This extends naturally to higher dimensions - in a finite 3d space, volumes must be finite, but both lines and areas can be fractally complex and infinite. And so on.
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 2 months ago:
But isn’t the issue that coastlines have a fractal nature? That depending on your resolution, you could have a finite or infinite length of a coastline? In which case measurement is hard to define.
Talking about integrals, the fun part is that even with a coastline of indeterminate length, the area of a continent is easy to define to arbitrary precision - you can just define an integral that’s definitely inside the area and one that’s definitely outside the area, and the answer is between those two.
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 2 months ago:
Sure, the length of the intervals is easily compared. But saying
there are twice as many elements in the total than there are in half the range
is false. This difference is the whole crux of the coastline problem, isn’t it?
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 2 months ago:
Isn’t it a bit like saying “there’s obviously more real numbers between 0 and 2 than between 0 and 1”? Which, to my knowledge, is a false statement.
- 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 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 👁️🐽👁️ 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 Alley cat lunch 7 months ago:
Crumbly? Flaky? That doesn’t sound like a Danish pickled herring… They’re smooth and fatty, with a light acid.
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 7 months ago:
Danish pickled herring is amazing though… You really think Dutch salted herring beats 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?
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 7 months ago:
Well… A puzzle is a challenge. In Blue Prince, part of the challenge is that you need to engage with the clues you have available, not necessarily the clues you hoped for. Removing that challenge is to remove part of the puzzle.
You’re fully within your right to say that’s not your cup of tea, but I think it does contribute something meaningful to the puzzling.
