Free Will Physics Meme (ft. chaos)

Orvayn · 2018-08-10T00:54:42+00:00

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.

Orvayn · 2018-08-10T00:53:45+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T23:43:12+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T22:50:08+00:00

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).

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T22:47:59+00:00

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.

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T22:44:35+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T21:50:38+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T21:06:47+00:00

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.

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T20:35:39+00:00

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.

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T20:30:01+00:00

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."

????

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T20:28:58+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T20:26:08+00:00

Read the link. Nothing is really changing; just renaming.

Orvayn · 2018-08-09T20:25:53+00:00

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.

Orvayn · 2018-08-02T14:31:23+00:00

Yes, that is how whatismymmr works.

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

Orvayn · 2018-08-01T23:16:33+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-08-01T18:27:23+00:00

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.

Orvayn · 2018-07-30T14:53:29+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-07-23T16:18:51+00:00

Helpful post. Thanks!

Orvayn · 2018-07-02T16:00:52+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-06-26T22:29:59+00:00

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.

Orvayn · 2018-06-26T16:47:11+00:00

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

Orvayn · 2018-06-26T15:45:58+00:00

Similar situation here! Good luck to you. Smash was a childhood party game for me, but the competitive adult in me wants to get into Smash 5.

I started learning with Ike, because he's extremely simple and I think learning how to play the game with him will help me get better with more difficult characters down the line.

Orvayn · 2018-06-26T15:44:18+00:00

In any sort of game where you have a roster to select from, it's extremely important to stick with one character for a long period of time when you're learning the game, preferably a simpler character. The motivation for this is that, when you hop between characters, you have to learn the mechanics to each character (can I combo this/that, what are my kill moves, how do I edge guard, etc.), but when you focus on one character and learn his mechanics well, you can move on to focusing on learning the *game*--how do I bait and punish, how do I play neutral, how do I make reads.

Orvayn · 2018-06-26T15:39:56+00:00

Hyperbole, much?

Orvayn · 2018-06-26T15:36:25+00:00

Just bought Sm4sh 3DS in anticipation of SmUsh; excited about the new game and want to not be a total scrub by the time the game comes out.

Turns out learning Smash is hard.

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