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Your position is more or less defensible, but you will have to accept some compromises to your description of the universe that most physicists find untenable. Actually, it is Bell…

I'm not making anecdotal conclusions or assumptions about whether people walk around or go into work, I'm simply stating the facts here based on considerable research. Influenza is…

Of course in many ways they are different, but not in the important ones for this discussion. I used influenza because it was convenient in terms of available research, I could gra…

Replying myself to add reference, here: https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30354-6/pdf This is all well understood, and studied in considerable depth. The media overr…

Over any time frame, it's still quite extreme. To use influenza as a proxy, which has virulence comparable to the cold, the yearly incidence rate in China is <35 per 100,000. Even …

This is incorrect. If we assume that this virus is as infectious as the common cold, we can expect the infection rate within a household to be approximately 25% of contacts. That m…

This is nothing more than the illusion of a stance so long as the statement on Weibo stands. Publicly calling Morey's statement "inappropriate" and "disappoint[ing]" and expressing…

> Decoherence is a superposition effect, is it not? Entanglement with the environment, i.e. a superposition of system-environment states. The point I'm trying to make is that "spli…

All depends on the context. Does it make sense to talk about propagating splitting in this context? Surely no - for three reasons: 1. You're describing a time evolution _of the sub…

When we talk about MWI as the asker is trying to more fully understand, we are explicitly not talking about subsystems. There's just the one big evolving state (of the universe).

Your choice of the future here is arbitrary - we could just as easily say that there are many past and present "you" in the multiverse. This assumes a definition closer to DD/DW's …

"Splitting" does not propagate, or happen with any locality - it's the wave function of the entire universe doing the splitting, so there's nowhere for it to propagate!

Your objections seem to me to arise straightforwardly from a disconnect over the definition of "you". Taking DW's position, and your axiom of unique self, I can resolve the issue b…

With today's technology, for some compounds... you can count atoms by physical measurements and known structure, and figure mass by atomic weight. http://www.nist.gov/pml/si-redef/…

This is potentially an interesting effect and worthy of some consideration, but the analysis needs to include some regression of this possible factor: An increased number of errors…

I don't think I'm understanding your point. Why would they need to invalidate previously confirmed transaction?

Why is this? My understanding of the way the network operates is that a group with 51% of hashing power can essentially arbitrarily manipulate the blockchain going forward. Nothing…

100% agreed - this would certainly undermine the movement. The open question is whether it would do so more or less than the loss of half a billion dollars held by the community. I…

I'm not making that assumption - rather the opposite, which is why I mentioned the possibility of reimbursing people later. But this isn't strictly necessary. Pragmatically, you co…

I don't think this is what I'm suggesting at all. If a popular majority of miners agreed to accept transactions double spending the original coins, this would be tantamount to gene…

It seems like there is a straightforward enough principle in this case to do so without much argument. Not that the method would be perfect. But isn't it preferable to the alternat…

Under the presumption that it is true that ~750k BTC has been stolen, has anyone considered the possibility of orchestrating a 51% attack on the attacker(s)? Gox probably has logs …

Or even, non-locomotive travel, as it were. In the relativistic sense. No discussion about interstellar travel can proceed without considering the Alcubierre drive. http://en.wikip…