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Re:I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational compl... by mygo on Saturday June 30, 2018 @10:05AM (#17430904)
> if we can't test the thing then the universe isn't going to punish us either way for believing or not.

If we can’t test the thing then what we are discussing is faith, not science.

Nothing wrong with faith and beliefs but I think it’s important to differentiate between these things and science because often times science is used as a basis for untestable beliefs and then people really start to think that those untestable beliefs are actually backed by scientific research.

Re:I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational compl... by sethrin on Sunday July 01, 2018 @02:28AM (#17434391)
Do you have any empirical evidence for any particular QM interpretation? If not, does that make them unscientific?
Re:I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational compl... by mygo on Monday July 02, 2018 @08:45PM (#17446598)
I think the various interpretations of QM, until one is proven (or we otherwise come to one definition)... they all lie within philosophy.