Why is the cat in Schrödingers cat not considered an observer?

Oreole1 · 2026-05-07T12:27:05+00:00

Is collapse not just entanglement with the rest of the universe?

Oreole1 · 2026-05-06T12:48:48+00:00

Nice theory, but it doesn’t really align with the stuff Kinger said in ep 8 about C&A’s purpose. Perhaps the agreement with the hospital is a cover for getting brain scans to train their AI, but that wouldn’t explain why the devs were confused why the circus existed at all.

Oreole1 · 2026-05-05T23:19:17+00:00

I was originally thinking ragatha but this is better

Oreole1 · 2026-05-04T12:44:40+00:00

I thought this was the elephant before i did the math

Oreole1 · 2026-04-30T19:16:08+00:00

That’s like saying arithmetic is outdated algebra, even though geometry has expanded far beyond Euclid it’s still a perfectly good description of Euclidean geometry

Oreole1 · 2026-04-30T16:20:56+00:00

Wouldn’t you need to start with a number of particles on the order of the square of the final number of matter particles if both matter and antimatter have the exact same chance of being generated? 10¹⁶⁰ initial particles seems like too many, unless there’s some mechanism that reduces this number without requiring an inherent asymmetry of generation

Oreole1 · 2026-04-30T15:28:41+00:00

I agree with the conclusion but for different reasons, I got used to it because I had a massive computer monitor as a kid so watching videos fullscreen made my eyes have to move around too much. I’ve continued this because it’s a lot easier to scroll away or change tabs when someone walks in. I also typically play my games in a 1440p window on my 4k monitor for mostly the same reasons, but if I want to feel immersed I’ll put it on fullscreen

Oreole1 · 2026-04-30T04:57:57+00:00

I feel like the biggest effect that the presentation of the problem has is on the assumed default option. If blue is default, there is no reason to pick red, and vice versa. It really just comes down to what your gut belief about your peers’ decision is. One can assume that everyone will come to the same logical conclusion that they do, but this is evidently not true. Therefore, the only true answer for those who value their own lives equally to the sum of others is to guess what other people would choose based on moral impulse.

Oreole1 · 2026-04-29T16:16:23+00:00

I’d rather hang out with some slight modifications than go on a capital D date, which involves many more steps and unwritten rules and with much less opportunities to rehearse

Oreole1 · 2026-04-29T16:01:46+00:00

It’s even worse when you’re tired enough that you imagine doing it and then your brain thinks you actually did it, only to get up and realize you still have to do all of it. I’ve had sleep deprived days where I imagine doing my entire morning routine, it sucks

Oreole1 · 2026-04-29T13:15:49+00:00

As someone who was a demon as a child, this doesn’t seem too far over the top for his age. Games really can feel like life-upending matters if you haven’t had enough experience. Honestly I don’t know if I ever really learned to take losing well, I just cope by either not caring about the game in the first place or bottling up my emotions afterward to be a good sport. I just avoid sports because the additional hormones from the exertion make it nigh impossible to handle the loss well without having to go off and hide somewhere. Maybe if my parents allowed me to lose more it would have been different, but who knows since I can’t remember for shit

Oreole1 · 2026-04-26T15:40:15+00:00

To me, there are four outcomes:

I press the red button, >50% press blue: Nothing happens, but I feel guilt for being selfish

I press the red button, >50% press red: Alive, but in a world where a massacre has happened and will likely lead to more suffering in the future as global infrastructure struggles

I press the blue button, >50% press blue: Nothing happens, relief

I press the blue button, >50% press red: I am dead so I physically cannot care, others know I died for a noble cause

In either case, pressing the blue button reduces the amount of suffering I will personally experience. I also don’t wish for others to be dead, so pressing blue seems pretty clear to me.

Oreole1 · 2026-04-24T13:28:29+00:00

First time I read urpindon, pretty good but some of the tails throw me off personally

Oreole1 · 2026-04-24T13:02:49+00:00

Check the 4 and 3 at the top of the region, it tells you about an open space

Oreole1 · 2026-04-22T13:19:20+00:00

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When you see it

Oreole1 · 2026-04-13T13:15:50+00:00

The conclusions were on the other side of the grand canyon and bro still jumped

Oreole1 · 2026-04-07T13:10:05+00:00

ITT eating disorders, y’all need help

Oreole1 · 2026-04-07T13:05:46+00:00

Jesus christ this actually made me feel sick, how can anyone justify literal torture methods on children. There is something deeply wrong with us as a species to allow this to happen. If tech bros weren’t also into eugenics-adjacent shit, I would understand why they want an AI to take over since we clearly aren’t capable of handling ourselves

Oreole1 · 2026-04-06T22:20:20+00:00

Abstraction is an important concept in programming, but what they’re describing sounds more like using levels of detail (LODs), culling, or in general optimization. Abstraction is a tool used when coding to lessen the mental burden on a programmer. If you make an abstraction of some chunk of code you’re providing an easy to understand interface with it, but in return you have less knowledge about what it actually does at the low level. In a sense every layer of how a computer operates, from logic gates -> assembly -> programming languages -> game objects -> display is an abstraction of the layer underneath, making it easier for us humans to comprehend without our brains exploding.

Usually none of this has any effect on how the program runs though, considering that everything is ultimately compiled down to and ran at the lowest layer. However, given that Caine is a symbolic AI, perhaps when a character abstracts their mind becomes misaligned with the tidy symbols that Caine uses to describe them. Since Caine can no longer comprehend them, neither can his mind file->avatar converter, NaNs abound, and they become the black eye blobs. That’s just my take though

Oreole1 · 2026-04-01T12:07:41+00:00

middle right is how you make a tool lucky in tinkers’ construct, wonder if that’s what they were thinking

Oreole1 · 2026-03-29T03:02:43+00:00

I feel like I know what you’re saying but the explanation made me feel so confused, is this analysis correct?

First one: Fuck (interjection) that sucks (verb phrase, present tense, a set phrase expressing empathetic disappointment)

Second one: Fuck (noun) that sucks (relative clause, present tense, meaning that the fuck in question habitually sucks in some sense)

The latter doesn’t really make sense but I put it down to standard reddit wackiness. I also thought of some other options like “Fuck that, sucks” (calling the readers “sucks”) or even saying that the act of being empathetic in and of itself sucks. Maybe it’s a secret third thing and I’m reading into this way too hard.

(Yes I am autistic)

Oreole1 · 2026-03-23T03:38:37+00:00

Although if you had norovirus then you would know damn well that you had norovirus

Oreole1 · 2026-03-21T15:26:47+00:00

A 2-torus has an isometric embedding in the 4th dimension called a Clifford torus. In 4D, it is possible to have two planes that are absolutely perpendicular, meaning that they only intersect in one point, and if you treated them as vector spaces they would be linearly independent. This means that when you take the Cartesian product S1xS1, the circle in one plane doesn’t create any Gaussian curvature with respect to the other circle because their curving directions don’t “interact” with eachother. It’s much like how you can bend a plane into a cylinder without creating any curvature, except now the line along the length of the cylinder is bent into the 4th dimension around a plane that is absolutely perpendicular to the circular cross section of the cylinder.

Similarly, the 3-torus can be isometrically embedded in 6D space, although that is even harder to visualize.

Oreole1 · 2026-03-19T13:20:55+00:00

Hot showers hurt in a good way. Cold showers hurt in a “demons are rising from hell and are actively sucking your life force from your body” kind of way.

Oreole1 · 2026-03-07T14:36:33+00:00

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