I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty

Re:I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty by xchip on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:20PM (#33551628)

TL;DR: I have anxiety but let me pretend I overcame it using quantum mechanics. I also need your validation, which is the main purpose of this article.

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Re:I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty by tetris11 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:19PM (#33552653)

Related: https://xkcd.com/1240/

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Re:I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty by mjhay on Thursday November 10, 2022 @07:46PM (#33555940)

There's a lot of interesting philosophical/metaphysical implications of quantum mechanics, not the least of which is the particular observationally-equivalent interpretation (e.g. Copenhagen or Von Neumann-Wigner[0]).

This essential subjectivity opens the floodgates to all sorts of quasi-profound nonsense. This is unfortunate, because quantum physics is easily a Copernican-level revolution in the relation of the mind, observation, and the world observed, but these lines of investigation have become radioactive due to association with the crystal-power crowd - who are among those trying to turn back the clock to a non-universal world of humans occupying a distinguished place at the center.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_int...

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Re:I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty by bheadmaster on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:27PM (#33552789)

Well put. I had the exact same conclusion reading this article, but couldn't put it into words.

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Re:I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty by jbirer on Friday November 11, 2022 @08:00AM (#33560285)

Whatever works.

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