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Quibblekrust

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  • Literally exactly how it works, too.

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  • I mentioned my sources of science news specifically because you accused me of being misled by... somebody. So fuck off with your mockery of me for trying to disuade you of that notion.

    This started as a joke, and you're just being an ass.

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  • A reply to your edit: You need to work on your grammar, spelling, and punctuation. I can't understand a thing you're saying.

    I'm KFC Double Downing on the double slits being doubly doubtful until you've observed the result.

  • Literally exactly how it works, too.

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  • We were talking about colloquial use of a word like "literally", and not entire bodies of science being replaced with religious terms. Those two things are not even remotely similar.

  • Literally exactly how it works, too.

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  • You have a stick up your butt. I observed it.

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  • Well, no. Not if you put a detector in one of the slits. It collapses the wave function, and the interference pattern disappears. The meme is a joke that your eyeballs are the detector, which is not true.

    I was making a bit of a joke myself to get people to think about when the collapse actually happens. It could occur as late as when you look at the screen, and you can't prove otherwise. You know... like, "is the moon still there when you're not looking at it?" Except for real.

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  • Yes, communication works best when people agree on what words mean, and a great, great many people have agreed that "literally" means things other than "literally". It's not gibberish to use it as such.

    It's not a dishonest argument at all. Language is not prescriptive. It's constantly evolving. New words are invented all the time, and old words take on new meanings all the time.

    Do you ever use "awesome" to mean "super cool"? Congratulations, you're misusing the word! How about "egregious" as in a bad error? Wrong! How about "fantastic" as meaning "wonderful" or "great"? Also wrong.

    Even when words do have specific meaning, if you don't know the meaning they are useless to you, so it might as well be gibberish. Can you speak Swahili? Does that mean it's gibberish? Of course not.

  • Literally exactly how it works, too.

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  • I don't understand. How can they "get" a wave pattern if they didn't look at the data?

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  • Haha, no I haven't. I don't believe in magic. I watch mainstream YouTube science channels, and not any "mystical" ones. PBS Spacetime, Dr Ben Miles, Quanta Magazine, Sabine Hossenfelder, etc.

    So, I ask you: please design an experiment that proves the outcome is determined precisely when the detector detects the particle going through the slit, and not when a person observes the screen or a recording the detector made. You can't. You can't prove that the detector detected something until you look at the result, and until you do, for all you know, it's in a superposition. That's all I'm saying. You know, shorting your scat. Everyone knows the shorting your scat experiement.

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  • Words mean what people think they mean when they say them. Nothing else. Miscommunication can occur if the speaker and listener don't have the same concept in their head, but it doesn't change the fact that words are just people serializing their thoughts into sounds or text. Dictionaries are not prescriptive, they are documentative.

    EDIT: In other words, "literally" is in literally the dictionary with a definition including how OP used it.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

    If you can't accept that, can you accept that they were being facetious? This is a joke community, after all.

    To the downvoters: go read some semantic theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics

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  • Nah, man, it's literally how it works (for all we know). The wave function doesn't collapse until the data is read. You can't prove otherwise, so people are free to believe it.

    This was a joke. This is a joke community. I was being facetious when I said "literally".

    However, there's truth in what I said. How do you know that the entire experimental setup is not in a superposition right up until you observe the result. I mean, you obviously have to look at the result of the experiment before you know what happened in the experiment, and until you do, the entire experiment could be in a superposition of [interference pattern] and [no interference pattern].

    However, this is not really what the meme is saying, so I guess my joke was dumb, and I deserve the downvotes.

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  • It's something dinosaurs smoked to get high.

  • Need a AI update

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  • Can you feel it in your bones as you use it?

  • The PlayStation Can Produce Mind-Boggling Effects :wow_miku:

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  • The PlayStation Can Produce Mind-Boggling Effects :wow_miku:

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  • That's a Wii

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  • Every number is divisible by pi.

  • Canonical is ‘ramping up’ AI in Ubuntu this year

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  • Sadly, Lemmy nerds do not constitute the whole room. Your perception is influenced by everyone here vomiting up a constant stream of anti-slop comments.

  • WHY YOU LITTLE!

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  • It reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where you can clone your consciousness into a personal assistant Alexa thingy, and then when it doesn't behave right because, you know... it's you, and it doesn't want to be trapped into a personal assistant thingy, you torture it by leaving it alone for a year of simulated time. And then when it misbehaved again, the character left it alone for like 15,000 years.

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  • Um, so can lithium. And lithium has a much higher energy density.

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  • Korean has a perfectly phonetic written language. It was invented by King Sejong and his scholars in 1444 specifically to be phonetic. Koreans probably use "Tyranasaurus" and "tiramisu" pronounced as-is, and the translator app translated the portmanteau phonetically to English.

    That's my hypothesis.