Will_Pearson comments on Quantum Explanations - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 April 2008 08:15AM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 09 April 2008 11:58:01AM 5 points [-]

His polemical style reminds me too much of political rhetoric for my liking. It hooks too much into the us vs them psychology e.g. rationalists vs irrationalists.

"Finally, I am going to take a strictly realist perspective on quantum mechanics - the quantum world is really out there, our equations describe the territory and not our maps of it,"

Why isn't this an example of the mind projection fallacy? I know you said to give you a break, but I really don't like it when people contradict themselves.