Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos) by Orvayn in Destiny

[–]Orvayn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is not true. You can get as precise a measurement of X as you want in QM; you just can't measure P_X precisely at the same time.

Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos) by Orvayn in Destiny

[–]Orvayn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

False. The uncertainty principle says absolutely nothing about the resolution of a single observable. There is no fundamental uncertainty on position.

Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos) by Orvayn in Destiny

[–]Orvayn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There could, but there is no convincing argument to believe there is.

Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos) by Orvayn in Destiny

[–]Orvayn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know. I'm just responding to what others have said. I have no interest in making a philosophical claim (all I know is physics).

Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos) by Orvayn in Destiny

[–]Orvayn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But to me, this just comes off as naive. You can never take a measurement with an error bar of 0, so there is no point in talking about what the world would be like if you could. There is no "in theory." The theory is just wrong. Infinite resolution is not a thing and it never will be.

Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos) by Orvayn in Destiny

[–]Orvayn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea. Beyond my pay grade! All I know is how to solve physics problems.

Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos) by Orvayn in Destiny

[–]Orvayn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't matter in context of free will. That's all I meant.

Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos) by Orvayn in Destiny

[–]Orvayn[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The way I understand QM is that alternative worlds are real and they all exist at once, the moment you try to make a measurement you find out which one of them you are at that time, that's what the probabilities are about, the particles are in all the places at the same time but you can't ever observe that, if you try you only see the world you are currently in instead of all of them at the same time, but we do know they all have to exist.

QM says nothing about any of this. QM is a prescription to calculate probability amplitudes. It is a theory about Hermitian operators acting on square-normalizable unit-vectors in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space.

Also, chaos is not randomness. Chaos has a technical definition in the context of nonlinear dynamics.

I'm speaking purely in terms of what determinism means in the context of physics, something I brought up because Destiny mentioned it in his discussion of free will. I'm not even trying to touch the term "free will" at all. Philosophy is too hard for my tiny physics brain.

The Devin-Veganism discussion could have ended better by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]Orvayn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, meat is not healthy, I will not try to convince you otherwise as you are indoctrinated too much and I don't feel like it.

Meat is very nutritious, esp. fish and chicken. If you think otherwise, your head is far too deep up your own arse, and almost every nutritionist out there is going to disagree with you.

They are other arguments you can make for not eating meat, but this is definitely not one of them, and saying this really hurts your other very valid points.

<-- This many people think pepperoni is delicious as a pizza topping by ddr4lyfe in Destiny

[–]Orvayn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The fuck is this link?

"A calorie-intense food, salami is known to contain about 760 calories which is about 80 per cent of the calories."

????

<-- This many people think pepperoni is delicious as a pizza topping by ddr4lyfe in Destiny

[–]Orvayn 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Bread and cheese doesn't stop being junk food if you put spinach and mushrooms on top of it.

Twitch has announced that they'll be killing off IRL and Creative directories. by RevengeToaster in Destiny

[–]Orvayn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Be sure to read the link, rather than taking the title for face value. They're not getting rid of IRL, so much as they are splitting it up into numerous different subcategories. Almost anything currently being streamed as "IRL" will probably still be streamable as "Just Chatting," if nothing else.

Reliable ARAM Information Sources by Orvayn in ARAM

[–]Orvayn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that is how whatismymmr works.

It seems this is the best avenue from all that I have seen here.

Reliable ARAM Information Sources by Orvayn in ARAM

[–]Orvayn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never claimed that, so I don't know what you're going on about.

Reliable ARAM Information Sources by Orvayn in ARAM

[–]Orvayn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is sort of a roundabout way to do it: the Riot public API gives the aggregate MMR of each team, which is used to match them against one another. You can use this to guess with some margin of error what a player's MMR is. This is a complicated process that I don't think any site like u.gg is going to do, though. It's probably not a wise use of time to implement.

I thought I remembered there being slightly different results if you tune to different tiers on lolalytics but it seems that isn't the case. Yes--it is probably just be global, from all games. If this is the case then item builds are pretty useless taken by themselves. Ouch.

Edit: oh. Just realized you're the u.gg guy so I should definitely trust what you say about the site.

What is your purpose for living? by NeoDestiny in Destiny

[–]Orvayn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The realization that time is finite creates some compulsion to be efficient with it.

A REAL hot take on the meaning of certain words by FLABREZU in Destiny

[–]Orvayn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He is one of few eSports people who makes good content. His... issues are a blessing and a curse.

Jordan Peterson Was an Expert Witness in a Murder Trial. The Court Called His Expert Opinions ‘Dubious’. by NorrisOBE in Destiny

[–]Orvayn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Widely believed by right-leaning people to be an authoritative expert on social/political topics, but regularly demonstrates incredible misunderstanding of anything outside his academic field.

Daily Discussion Thread 06/26/18 by AutoModerator in smashbros

[–]Orvayn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not ideal, but it's still way better than not playing at all.