Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Quantum Explanations - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2008 06:35:47AM 2 points [-]

Density matrices were specifically what I had in mind when I talked about dragging in great big complicated math tools before people understand what's going on at a fundamental level.

I didn't know mixed states were a battleground, but it's pretty easy to imagine. Confusion about the subjective Bayesian character of statistical mechanics + confusion about the objective character of quantum states = extreme confusion about mixed states, right?