For convenience, I gathered a few comments of mine into a blog post.

  • self@awful.systemsM
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    11 months ago

    If you really want to cite someone he admires, you could note that Eliezer Yudkowsky uses 1 as a probability when trying (and failing) to explain quantum mechanics, because he writes probability amplitudes of absolute value 1.

    I’m glad I’ve never pissed off a career physicist, cause this is concise, targeted destruction

    • titotal@awful.systems
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      11 months ago

      If you want more of this, I wrote a full critique of his mangled intro to quantum physics, where he forgets the whole “conservation of energy” thing.