Interesting Links for 01-08-2025
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- 1. The real reason why modern media is making us dumber
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- 2. Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality
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- 3. A cozy farming game set in The Shire? That's not a license to print money at all!
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- 4. Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20,000 homes come on the market
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Date: 2025-08-01 08:24 pm (UTC)Schroedinger was pointing out how silly some of the consequences of a simple approach to quantum physics could be. He didn't expect it to be an actual experiment or to be taken as seriously as some people have.
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Date: 2025-08-01 08:48 pm (UTC)But the footnote collapses this dilemma by saying it wouldn't work that way. You wouldn't be able to set the experiment up in the first place.
*Of course it wasn't an actual experiment. We're not going to kill a cat! But it was an actual thought experiment.
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