Hi savageorange, I’m far from an expert in quantum mechanics. But I was led to believe it by a couple sources I came across recently. Particularly the Youtube vid from Minutephysics called “Can we predict everything” which mentions that non-determinism has been proven, and another video, I think from Lawrence Krauss, that mentioned that Einstein’s “god does not play dice” was proven wrong by one of Einstein’s contemporaries.
By the way, this is the first post I made on the site, I tried not to present it as a topic for formal discussion and mentioned that it was just something fun to ponder from a very layman perspective. The neg votes are a bit of a dismay.
My advice is to avoid discussing quantum physics for a while. Especially if your knowledge on the topic comes from short slogans from youtube videos. That kind of stuff really gets downvoted here.
(I don’t know what was your motivation for that, so I will just guess wildly. It is not necessary to discuss “smart topics” in this forum. That’s the kind of signalling that would probably seem cool in Mensa. Here, you could get better results by saying the obvious. Discuss the difficult topics when you feel confident that you understand them; otherwise, it may be better to ask questions.)
Any other topic you may consider interesting to discuss on LW? (In a new top-level comment.) For example, what is the thing you care about that you hope LW might be somehow helpful for? Or just generally, what are the things you care about?
I don’t understand why you believe quantum mechanics is non-deterministic. Do you, perhaps, believe probability functions are non-deterministic?
Hi savageorange, I’m far from an expert in quantum mechanics. But I was led to believe it by a couple sources I came across recently. Particularly the Youtube vid from Minutephysics called “Can we predict everything” which mentions that non-determinism has been proven, and another video, I think from Lawrence Krauss, that mentioned that Einstein’s “god does not play dice” was proven wrong by one of Einstein’s contemporaries.
By the way, this is the first post I made on the site, I tried not to present it as a topic for formal discussion and mentioned that it was just something fun to ponder from a very layman perspective. The neg votes are a bit of a dismay.
I understand your feelings.
My advice is to avoid discussing quantum physics for a while. Especially if your knowledge on the topic comes from short slogans from youtube videos. That kind of stuff really gets downvoted here.
(I don’t know what was your motivation for that, so I will just guess wildly. It is not necessary to discuss “smart topics” in this forum. That’s the kind of signalling that would probably seem cool in Mensa. Here, you could get better results by saying the obvious. Discuss the difficult topics when you feel confident that you understand them; otherwise, it may be better to ask questions.)
Any other topic you may consider interesting to discuss on LW? (In a new top-level comment.) For example, what is the thing you care about that you hope LW might be somehow helpful for? Or just generally, what are the things you care about?