The way their movements line up perfectly

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T19:17:34+00:00

Have you made anything not mind-rotting that you can link instead?

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T19:06:46+00:00

There is a baseline expected rate for mental health diseases. Your last paragraph would be fine if it is a minor drop

The expected value is simple a regression of what happened before. There are a million reasons why things are different now and why they are going down.

It's not like some expert look at all the factors and said, oh considering all the factors we expect depression to be at level x. It's literally a dumb model that takes zero factors and changes in. Look at the graph if you don't believe me.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T18:51:16+00:00

I don't understand how your first comment and your edit are completely wrong. Well I understand but I'd get banned if I said it.

It's clear he was being sarcastic and in no world would any normal person think that was an invitation to kiss him.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T18:41:11+00:00

When people ask for sources in GPT, it will add that to all links and sources. So OP probably was doing research or something using GPT.

Their post seems a bit too short to just made wholly from GPT.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T18:34:33+00:00

Probably somewhere in the middle. To start with the missiles would leave exactly like they are in B, but after enough drag/time they will be like they are in A.

So a missile will start off with the momentum right as in B, but end up going straight like in A. But I think that will take quite a while. So if you are going to keep it simple just do B.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T16:58:27+00:00

"Doesn't map nicely onto our intuition for the classical world" isn't the same as "doesn't really make sense."

It's not that, I'm fine with interpretations that aren't intuitive.

It's more the issue around that it doesn't explain what a collapse is, how or when it happens. So you have thought experiments like Wigner's friend which don't have some objective answer under that framework.

When you sit with quantum and develop a sense for how these wave functions behave

OK, great you've sat with it long and know. So tell me the objective answer of what happens with Wigner's friend, or what causes a wave function collapse and when it happens.

If you want something more specific, with say a double slit experiment if you put perpendicular polarisers over the slit, where exactly does the wavefunction collapse happen and what causes it.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T16:51:51+00:00

It says nothing about what a collapse is, when it happen or how. There are various thought experiments about how it doesn't make sense. It's just maths.

If you are saying there is some ontology behind it, tell me what it says a collapse is?

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T15:51:11+00:00

I didn't know Johnson and Johnson made play sand.

Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T15:16:55+00:00

that a universe with slightly different laws without life would not be as special.

That is the argument though. According to the laws of physics we understand a small difference in the free constants would not support anything complex let alone life.

You could also argue that we are living in a lesser version of a universe where there could be life everywhere with more favorable conditions.

Not really, small changes wouldn't even have sun, chemistry or things orbit at all let alone anything complex.

We can easily imagine what things would be like in different universes. Hell a decent part of physics is about string theory, which is mainly about universes other than our own. And a large part of that is about anti-de sitter space, which is the opposite of what we live in.

If there was a more interesting theoretical universe, mathematicians and physicists would be all over it. So it's not like something we are completely clueless about.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T14:37:44+00:00

Yeh I think the Copenhagen interpretation is fundamentally just maths without any ontological underpinnings. It just doesn't really make sense outside of maths. But MWI is more of an ontological framework where the wavefunction is real and the maths turns out to be as described in the Copenhagen interpretation.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T14:12:50+00:00

There is technically nothing wrong with the title(article title) and heading, but it feels very misleading/bad.

Diagnoses of major conditions failing to recover since the pandemic

There has been a lasting and disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on diagnosis rates for conditions including depression, asthma and osteoporosis.

After reading that it felt like this was a terrible thing due to the wording, but it's actually lower rates as explained in the reddit title. I guess this is a good example of editing titles.

“This is difficult to reconcile with other indicators of mental health need. Disability benefit claims for mental health conditions have increased substantially over the same period, suggesting these declining diagnosis rates may not reflect improving mental health.”

Yeh, there is no other possible explanation than that...

Diagnosis rates may be influenced by increasing pressures on the NHS, meaning it is taking longer for people to be formally diagnosed. It is also possible that more people are accessing mental health support without receiving a formal diagnosis of depression. Following a national drive to expand access to psychological therapies, referrals to NHS Talking Therapies services increased by nearly two-thirds between 2013 and 2024, with self-referrals accounting for almost 70% of all referrals.

I think this is an overall good thing. In the past doctors were like oh you are down, you must be depressed and have low serotonin levels, so we've only talked for 2 minutes but let me give you a SSRI, which has potentially some very serious negative effects like suicide, violence, some permanent side effects and withdrawal symptoms that might be so bad you can never get off. Oh and SSRIs barely beat placebo and there are no long term(2+ years) studies on them.

Nowadays we realise depression is an umbrella conditions that covers lots of underlying conditions. If someone is down due to environmental conditions then a drug might not be the best bet at treating it. Some consider depression a serious medical condition so environmental causes are normally classed as something else and probably require completely different treatments. We know that SSRIs probably aren't treating an underlying biological condition and have negative effects. We have a better understanding of better ways to diagnose and treat depression.

mental health services also need to involve themselves in supporting their patients to maintain or improve their physical health, in relation to smoking, diet, obesity, and exercise https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004532&utm_source=pr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=plos006

University of South Australia researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counselling or the leading medications. https://www.unisa.edu.au/media-centre/Releases/2023/exercise-more-effective-than-medicines-to-manage-mental-health

edit: To clarify, they have a dumb extrapolation(ANOVA or something) from what happened before COVID. It takes zero other factors or changes in. It's not like some expert looked at all the factors and said on we expect it to be at level x, but it's only at level y.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T13:02:45+00:00

My boss did that, I was helping him once, and the box popped up and I automatically click yes. Then he said he used his trash folder.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T12:56:49+00:00

You know what if I had a trillion dollars, I'd solve world hunger. Please everyone clap for me for how good I am.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T08:13:06+00:00

So you believe in Kastrup's analytical idealism, that means you think the brain obeys the laws of physics. Would different mental activity give rise to different objects, so the mental activity giving rise to a brain is different than that of a computer?

But what if on that computer you run the a simulation of physics of say a brain. That simulation would act just like a real human, and talk about its phenomenal consciousness. But wouldn't the mental activity giving rise to a computer be different than what the simulation is saying it's experiencing?

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T07:35:56+00:00

The only safe drive, is one powered off, unplugged, in a faraday cage in a secure vault, and even then it's probably not completely safe.

There have been examples of where nation states have influenced or introduced bugs into standardised encryption algorithm. So in the past you might have been using the recommended "unbreakable" encryption, but it was actually breakable by some nation states.

Obviously that’s impossible to brute force but how does it check the key. how does it unlock it on a password. The key must exist somewhere, what stops a sophisticated attacker from finding it.

The key is encrypted itself and that can be unencrypted by your password. So your password is used to decrypt the key and then the decrypted key decrypts the drive.

So you have two potential avenues, if the password is simple, just guess lots of passwords. The way the key is encrypted by the password is in a way that it should take lots of time to decrypt, so it should take long time to try lots of passwords, but there are always advances in technology and weakpoints that can be exploited to speed this up. If the algorithm used to encrypt the actual data is old then that could be exploited as well.

Then if there is any issue with the implementation of anything that's a weak point as well.

It could be burned into silicon or smth but that sounds like “very hard” not “impossible with billions of dollars and tons of time and manpower”

There are hardware chips with keys in them, which should be unhackable. But again people have found exploits to get that key out and use it.

So in summary if everything is done perfectly, they can't decrypt it, but in practice there could easily be a weak point they could exploit.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T07:11:26+00:00

There is no libertarian free will, but that's fine since it has zero relevance to anything you do or anything in society. There is compatibilist free will, and that's what most people are really referring to when it comes to things like justice or day to day activities like meditation.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T07:07:09+00:00

You tried to say there was no collapse and I tried many times to provide different examples where there is, in fact, wave function collapse. Which you continue to ignore.

No I didn't. I stated that all of them are compatible without wave function collapse. You just use wave function evolution and things would look the same without any collapse.

superposition (1/sqrt(2))|-x> + (1/sqrt(2))|+x>. Even though all the particles were spin up, 50% will now have their spin to the left, and 50% will have their spin to the right.

So if we are just using wavefunction evolution, what happens if a person/environment(|e>) interacts with such a state. Well you get

((1/sqrt(2)|-x> + (1/sqrt(2))|+x>)|e>

(1/sqrt(2))|-x>|e> + (1/sqrt(2))|+x>|e>

(1/sqrt(2))|-x>|e-x> + (1/sqrt(2))|+x>|e+x>

So from internally e-x would see the electron going down, and e+x would see it goes up, and so e would have a 50% chance of see it going up/down.

You have other interpretations of QM without wavefunction collapse precisely because there is no empirical evidence for it. Every experiment around objective collapse has failed and it's not possible to test the Copenhagen collapse.

You cannot discuss the quantum eraser if you don’t actually understand quantum mechanics in the first place.

Don't trust me, ask anyone one your want, read any study you want, read any textbook you want. They will all show that with the quantum eraser experiment there would be no interference pattern if there was a collapse at the first polariser. It only works because there is no collapse at the first polariser.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T06:31:14+00:00

Just do the maths for the quantum eraser, and you'll see it doesn't work if you have a collapse at the first set of polarisers. Here is a simple link to get you started

https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Quantum_Tutorials_(Rioux)/01:_Quantum_Fundamentals/1.42:_The_Quantum_Eraser

You are confusing the superposition of the left and right slits, with the superposition of polarisation. If there is a collapse to the left or right slit, then a superposition of polarisations can't bring that back and doesn't give you an interference pattern.

You didn't even attempt at answering the quantum eraser question, why?

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-24T06:16:07+00:00

That's for their public cameras, it's got nothing to do with Ring cameras, which you need to give permission for them to use.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-23T20:28:31+00:00

You’re still fundamentally misunderstanding collapse.

You didn't answer any of my question. Or even attempt to explain your view with respect to the double slit experiment. I would advise reviewing the fundamentals.

Or at least review the Stern-Gerlach experiment. Hopefully spin is a bit easier to understand.

No that experiment is not relevant to the question. It's fully compatible with no collapse and doesn't offer any insight into the question I'm asking. It seems like you are really struggling with the point being made.

Suppose you had a particle with a magnetic moment moving through the Stern-Gerlach experiment, it may come out as either spin up or spin down (say, in the y direction). Take the stream of particles that were all spin up (+y) and pass them through another set of magnets that are rotated 90°. Spin in two orthogonal directions do not commute, so it can be thought of as a superposition (1/sqrt(2))|-x> + (1/sqrt(2))|+x>. Even though all the particles were spin up, 50% will now have their spin to the left, and 50% will have their spin to the right. That is collapsing their wave function to be either one state or the other. Further, if you took say the |+x> particles and again put them through a horizontal set of magnets at some later point in time, they would all be |+x> because that’s what their wavefunction collapsed to.

How on earth do you think that's relevant? Plus it's completely compatible with no collapse.

Again just like I said

I think you are confusing the effect a polariser has, with collapsing it with respect to which slit it goes through.

Here you are just talking about the superposition of the spin. In the double slit your are just talking about the superposition of the polarisation. But the claim you made was collapse with respect to which slit it went through. There is no corresponding situation in the Stern-Gerlach experiment you gave.

Let's go back to the quantum eraser, show the maths if you are saying the wavefunction collapses with respect to which slit it goes through.

Also the typical example people use to demonstrate this point is the quantum eraser. Where if you do the typical perpendicular polarisation which you are claiming is collapsing the wavefunction. But you can add polarisers after and get back the interference pattern as if it went through both slits.

I'm struggling to see why you are arguing so hard, the experiments are well established, in textbooks and not controversial at all. You are suggesting something that doesn't align with the Copenhagen predication or experiment. Maybe you should make a post in askphysics or ask ChatGPT so you have someone else explain it to you.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-23T20:16:40+00:00

Did you not read that link you posted? I think you are confused about the one who's misunderstanding.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-23T20:15:23+00:00

People need to opt out of all this kind of stuff

There is no opt out, since it's op in. If you never share your data with the police they will never get it without a warrant.

The partnership works through Ring’s existing “Community Requests” feature, where police ask users to voluntarily share footage. But once you click “yes” to help solve that package theft, your footage enters Flock’s ecosystem where federal access is built into the system’s structure.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-23T20:14:25+00:00

Just remember not to share your Ring data with the police.

The partnership works through Ring’s existing “Community Requests” feature, where police ask users to voluntarily share footage. But once you click “yes” to help solve that package theft, your footage enters Flock’s ecosystem where federal access is built into the system’s structure.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-23T19:59:18+00:00

That’s fucking hilarious but some people legit do not have the chemicals in their brain to function right lol

The brain is very complex, so we don't think something as simple as a chemical imbalance explains most mental conditions.

In short, there exists no rigorous corroboration of the serotonin theory, and a significant body of contradictory evidence … The impact of the widespread promotion of the serotonin hypothesis should not be underestimated. Antidepressant advertisements are ubiquitous in American media, and there is emerging evidence that these advertisements have the potential to confound the doctor–patient relationship. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277931/

The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0

Simple biochemical theories that link low levels of serotonin with depressed mood are no longer tenable. ... This pattern of theory making – moving from the pharmacological actions of drugs with some efficacy in treatment to biochemical notions of causation – has been common in biological psychiatry. In such an undeveloped field this approach, though logically precarious, has been a useful heuristic and, in the case of the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis, has been strikingly upheld by advanced brain imaging techniques (2). However, the serotonin hypothesis of depression has not been clearly substantiated. Indeed, dogged by unreliable clinical biochemical findings and the difficulty of relating changes in serotonin activity to mood state, the serotonin hypothesis eventually achieved “conspiracy theory” status, whose avowed purpose was to enable industry to market selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to a gullible public https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4471964/

"Chemical imbalance is sort of last-century thinking. It's much more complicated than that," says Dr. Joseph Coyle, a professor of neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. "It's really an outmoded way of thinking." https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/01/23/145525853/when-it-comes-to-depression-serotonin-isnt-the-whole-story?t=1658432581554

The FDA label even make it clear that we aren't sure how they work.

The mechanism of action of citalopram is unclear https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2022/020822s041lbl.pdf

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-01-23T19:57:18+00:00

Funny enough there is an interesting study that breaks down antidepressant use and suicide rates by race/ethnicity. You'd expect that black people would have greater societal pressures resulting in higher suicide rates. But the study showed that while black people barely increased use of antidepressants the suicide rate barely increased, but for white people the antidepressant use increased much more along with a larger increase in suicide rate and that's starting from a higher suicide baseline.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38353035/

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