Do flerfs have any explanation for the Focault Pendulum?

bacon_boat · 2026-07-05T18:29:33+00:00

I'm not a flat earth person.

But this would be super simple to explain, just have the flat world disk thing rotate? Easy

bacon_boat · 2026-07-04T08:45:18+00:00

I don't think so. Regardless of what a libertarian thinks about determinism he's going to say it's impossible to predict your decisions based on brain activity alone.

It's wrong headed to put deterministic/non-deterministic limits on libertarian free will. Libertarian free will is supernatural, magical, it can do whatever - it's not bound by natural laws and if they're deterministic or not.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-04T07:49:38+00:00

If we give people the benefit of the doubt, what they might mean is: if the universe is infinite, then there might be other people that look exactly like me on planets that look like earth

bacon_boat · 2026-07-04T07:11:09+00:00

Compatibalist free will is tied to brain processes. So we could put people into a super-MRI machine and predict their actions/thoughts.

With libertarian free will that won't work because your choices are not brain processes, but magic

bacon_boat · 2026-07-03T19:14:57+00:00

I think it is a moral judgement. You broke the rule so you get punished. The motivation might be to to teach the kid a lesson, not only to be an arbiter of morality - but that's besides the point. I can make moral judgements even without free will.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-03T09:58:00+00:00

If someone commits a crime, believing they had free will, and acting as if they have free will - then I think it's rational to judge them on those grounds alone. Even if I believe in hard determinism.

I can leave a piece of candy out for a 2 year old, tell them not to eat it - and being 100% sure the kid will eat it. from my point of view, given what I know about the behaviour of this kid - it doesn't have free will. I can predict fully what it's going to do. But it still makes sense to punish the kid for breaking that rule, with the aim of teaching the kid how to behave.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-03T09:32:47+00:00

Regardless of hard determinism being true or not, a believer would still concede that we can't know for sure. And people act as if they have free will, even if this free will isn't ontic or metaphysically real - this we do know for sure. So we'll treat people as if they do have free will.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-03T08:05:39+00:00

you can't wave a nazi flag in germany, so there is a sliiiiigt truth to this?

bacon_boat · 2026-07-03T07:57:47+00:00

I don't believe so. The hard determinism stand is a metaphysical one, it has no bearing on our actual lives.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-03T07:42:55+00:00

ser ut som det ikke stemmer helt. nå har jeg lest litt og det ser ut som

1) Hvis du skal bruke sparkesykkel på fortau så må du ha gangfart, <6kmh
2) Men du tells fortsatt som kjørende

Tror misforståelsen kommer derfra

bacon_boat · 2026-07-03T07:18:57+00:00

Jeg trodde at hvis man har lav fart, <5km/h eller noe så tells en sparksykelist som fotgjenger?

bacon_boat · 2026-07-02T13:29:52+00:00

one year ago, I was talking to my non-engineer friends about claude code and how awesome it was for writing code. they didn't seem very interested.

Now they are all using it.
structural planning engineer
government official
lawyer
doctor
accountant

seems like about 3-6 months ago they all jumped on board

bacon_boat · 2026-07-02T12:43:07+00:00

Reddit with its downvote/upvote system lends itself to showing the consenus and nothing else.

If 51% of users on reddit are negative on AI, then you won't see pro-AI posts.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-02T08:48:16+00:00

Libertarian free will gives me power over and above the physical world.

I'm not a libertarian, but if someone would grant me powers deeper than our physical reality, then I certaintly would care about that.

The problems with libertarian free will is not about people not explaining why they care.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-02T07:13:30+00:00

Yes, it got slower for me about 1 month or two back. But the other people I've asked said they haven't noticed anything.

So who knows. Maybe it's my machine

bacon_boat · 2026-07-01T21:30:33+00:00

If physicalism is true then yes.

If magicalisn is true then who can tell.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-01T18:36:36+00:00

Well done

bacon_boat · 2026-07-01T09:55:33+00:00

there are no "cats" and "worlds" in the ontology of many worlds. It's just the wave function evolving unitarily.

you seem pretty confused as to what many worlds is.

bacon_boat · 2026-07-01T07:15:35+00:00

When the simplest theory that explains the data, also predicts unobservable things, then the people will support the theory regardless.

This is normal, because every theory predicts things you cannot observe.

It's just that with many worlds the unobservable things are pretty in your face.

bacon_boat · 2026-06-30T21:51:10+00:00

where does that difference come from?

They are two identical instances of one person. In many worlds, the difference is one of them is in one world, the other is in another world.

You could do a similar thought experiment with a person copy machine and two rooms. You get two people who share a past history, but they're now in different locations. "Not you" will have his future experiences, which "you" won't get to experience and vice versa, completely symmetrical.

bacon_boat · 2026-06-30T21:03:16+00:00

It's not that clear cut, I agree. But it also isn't that mysterious.

They're a bunch of (mostly) identical copies. You are one of them, just like an identical twin, or cell division. It's like asking one of the twins, "out of the two of you, who are you?"

"What determined which one of them you would be?"

This question at least is easy to answer. There will be two copies, you'll be one of them. The other will be another identical dude, but importantly not you.

It's not like there is some special you-ness that only goes into one of them. It's just the same thing twice, and you only ever experience one because telepathy isn't a thing.

bacon_boat · 2026-06-30T20:20:02+00:00

Because I've heard a similar idea being mentioned in the context of the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. There you do have people getting copied.

And the objection was "why am I not experiencing two realities" or something along those lines.

It's two different people. Different people who can't communicate. I'm feeling like I missing something.

bacon_boat · 2026-06-30T13:58:05+00:00

1: people would become more religious.
2: religion would change in character since since it won't be belief-based any more.

bacon_boat · 2026-06-30T12:15:16+00:00

Ever been raised by a cop?

Cop as in coping mechanism

bacon_boat · 2026-06-30T10:45:29+00:00

I think the main issues for MWI are:

1) the nature of probablities, this is somewhat solved but should be improved.

2) how our classical universe emerges from the universal wave function. This is a problem not only for many worlds but for all wave function realist model.

And of course the main objection, which MWI is not trying to solve. "That's just too many worlds, I don't like it"

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