DavidPlumpton

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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
Make the slightest mistake and you are getting sued!
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
In Many Worlds virtual particles are simply other universes (other parts of Hilbert space) that have electrons in different positions. They are nearby enough to contribute some amplitude to have an observable effect. Edit a word.
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
It does not require FTL signalling for the entanglement to work.
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
Ask them about their enterprise licensing and see if you still have the same opinion.
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
Death by Snoo-Snoo
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
If I understand it a free particle is not really quantised; it can have pretty much any wavelength. But when it is confined by boundary conditions (e.g. within an atom) we then get interference and reinforcement in the wave equations.
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
The Many Worlds Interpretation plus Sleeping Beauty can directly explain this.
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
You don't need to hack voting machines. If you control the body that allocates them in your area you send more of them to areas favourable to your desired outcome. So in other areas the lines get too long and some people don't get
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
Jeremy Clarkson published his bank account details in his column to back up his assertion that you can send money to a bank account but not withdraw any. However apparently anybody can set up an automatic payment from any account to any oth
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
In QM random outcomes occur. By what mechanism are the random values chosen? Many Worlds has a plausible mechanism for this. I'm unaware of any other interpretation claiming the same.
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
You are in A wondering why you are in A. You are also in B wondering why you are in B, and so on. It's all perfectly consistent.
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by DavidPlumpton 10y ago
The Everett FAQ makes even stronger claims about the status of Many Worlds. See http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm#interpretation
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
I wonder how that compares to a single AWS data centre.
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
They used to say the Space Shuttle isn't ready to fly unless the weight of the paperwork is equal to the weight of the shuttle.
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
You might find this interesting http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
Somebody should create a CV with years of experience in all the worst technologies and circulate it through all the worst recruiters and see what happens.
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
The Everett FAQ Q16 disagrees. http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm And if you're in the mood for a lot of reading http://lesswrong.com/lw/r8/and_the_winner_is_manyworlds/
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
The Many Worlds Interpretation explains all of this quite intuitively http://lesswrong.com/lw/r8/and_the_winner_is_manyworlds/
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
Well one of those games is playing world championship level chess. Pretty cool for something that fits in your pocket.
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
Is computing Chaitin's omega the most pointless waste of time that can possibly be imagined, by definition? If you actually had the value can you do anything with it at all?
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
I took a university course on Unix internals in 1988. The lecturer started by announcing "this is the last year that we will teach this course as Unix is now very out of date and is being left further behind every year". It turned
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by DavidPlumpton 11y ago
I was dealing with this a couple of days ago: List<List<List<Map<String, Object>>>> Sigh.
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by DavidPlumpton 12y ago
It's widely reported. For example http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
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by DavidPlumpton 12y ago
So if any of this was true it would all just be an amazing coincidence that the pilot was in a courtroom seeing a political figure he strongly supported for years getting a hefty sentence on trumped up charges for challenging the national l
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by DavidPlumpton 12y ago
Try writing a complex program in 1960s era COBOL. Then you will understand a large part of Lisp's claim to fame.
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by DavidPlumpton 12y ago
I learned programming by reading the source code of this game in the fantastic book by David Ahl. I still remember an array called K which contained the X,Y coordinates and shield strength of each Klingon warship.
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by DavidPlumpton 12y ago
What's more likely? That quantum interference appears because many worlds perpetually exist, or because they seem to exist but somehow don't, or because they sometimes briefly come into existence, hang around for a bit and then ra
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by DavidPlumpton 12y ago
I was unable to figure out one key thing about this article. Are they claiming that if the droplet is observed while going through one of the slits that the interference pattern will vanish? If not can we really claim a strong analogy with
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by DavidPlumpton 12y ago
Yudkowsky is more of an expert in reasoning than in Physics. For example, imagine you are a world class expert in Quantum Mechanics and you are asked to give a talk at a science club. You cover a lot of stuff and think "that was great&
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by DavidPlumpton 13y ago
That's because Bender's metal ass is so shiny.

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