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Cake day: October 2nd, 2023

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  • (Also, if any motherfucker starts repeating 't Hooft anti-quantum arguments then they’re going to get the book thrown at them.)

    Unrelated to the topic at hand, but I read the article and now I’m curious if you could point to any good replies. From my understanding, the issue of interpretation is still not definitively solved, and attempts to reduce QM down to classical physics have been going on at least since Einstein.
















  • Wanting to escape the fact that we are beings of the flesh seems to be behind so much of the rationalist-reactionary impulse – a desire to one-up our mortal shells by eugenics, weird diets, ā€˜brain uploading’ and something like vampirism with the Bryan Johnson guy. It’s wonderful you found a way to embrace and express yourself instead! Yes, in a healthier relationship with our bodies – which is what we are – such changes would be considered part of general healthcare. It sometimes appears particularly extreme in the US from here from Europe at least, maybe a heritage of puritanical norms.