Are Physical Laws Inevitable?
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Are Physical Laws Inevitable?
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#2I see the article mentions Sabine Hossenfelder -- I had just started watching some of her videos on YouTube. She's a wonderful presenter.
She's also a talented singer and has some music videos on her channel as well.
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#3I see the article mentions Sabine Hossenfelder -- I had just started watching some of her videos on YouTube. She's a wonderful presenter. She's also a talented singer and has some music videos on her channel as well.
Be careful with her videos. While she does have some good content, Sabine has an agenda to push with respect to big science and I've seen at least a few of her articles on projects I'm familiar with that are well within conspiracy theory territory.
See, for example, her blog post and video on LIGO where she makes it seem like the researchers committed fraud and fabricated the whole detection of gravitational waves. My explanation of why this is dishonest here: [1]
Unfortunately, this is really harmful because she's coming from a place of authority and spreading the lie that big science is bending the truth when it comes to their discoveries. You can see this reflected in her audience and her video comments are full of climate deniers and others that want this to be true thanking her for exposing, in their words, the so called "quack-a-demics".
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#4The article in Quanta magazine has also been discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21743847
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#5Yes.
edit: punctuation
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#6Materialists just trying to avoid the implications of Wigner's argument.
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#7Materialists just trying to avoid the implications of Wigner's argument.
We don’t actually know that human minds can’t be in superposition
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#8I see the article mentions Sabine Hossenfelder -- I had just started watching some of her videos on YouTube. She's a wonderful presenter. She's also a talented singer and has some music videos on her channel as well.
Be careful with her videos. While she does have some good content, Sabine has an agenda to push with respect to big science and I've seen at least a few of her articles on projects I'm familiar with that are well within conspiracy theory territory. See, for example, her blog post and video on LIGO where she makes it seem like the researchers committed fraud and fabricated the whole detection of gravitational waves. M…
What agenda in particular are you accusing her of, here? Are you suggesting it is particular to LIGO, or is it a more general, political agenda?
Also, what is wrong with people who question the politics and alarmism around climate change? Isn't the ability to question something fundamental to scientific reasoning? I don't think your dismisal of people as "deniers" is very reassuring of scientifc reasoning in that context, and this is because I don't see people there who are denying scientific facts, but rather questioning commonly held assumptions.
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#9Materialists just trying to avoid the implications of Wigner's argument.
What would the implication be?
Do you assume that it's absurd to consider that a conscious being is really no different than any other memory equipped machine and thus can be in a superposition state like anything else without necessarily "feel" anything special about it?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be careful with her videos. While she does have some good content, Sabine has an agenda to push with respect to big science and I've seen at least a few of her articles on projects I'm familiar with that are well within conspiracy theory territory. See, for example, her blog post and video on LIGO where she makes it seem like the researchers committed fraud and fabricated the whole detection of gravitational waves. M…
What agenda in particular are you accusing her of, here? Are you suggesting it is particular to LIGO, or is it a more general, political agenda? Also, what is wrong with people who question the politics and alarmism around climate change? Isn't the ability to question something fundamental to scientific reasoning? I don't think your dismisal of people as "deniers" is very reassuring of scientifc reasoning in that con…
I think when people express concern over climate change denial, the concern usually isn't over the fact that climate change denial is physically and legally possible. The concern is usually more about the consequences of denial and the fact that denial seems to have a disproportionate influence over political outcomes.