Warrigal comments on Scott Aaronson on Born Probabilities - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Wei_Dai 02 October 2009 06:40AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2009 05:53:16PM 0 points [-]

Because "square of absolute value of wavefunction" is shorter and clearer than "product of wave function with complex conjugate", I'm guessing.

(Counting by words, syllables or letters gives that result; I also tried counting morae and ended up with the same count for both.)

Comment author: SilasBarta 21 October 2009 06:20:32PM 0 points [-]

True. But wouldn't your meaning be clear if you used the shorter term "wavefunction conjugate product"? Then again, maybe not.