potato comments on The Quantum Arena - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 April 2008 07:00PM

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Comment author: potato 20 April 2012 08:58:54PM 3 points [-]

Is it contradictory to be an infinite set atheist, and be a realist about a continuous configuration space?

Comment author: hairyfigment 20 April 2012 11:11:10PM 0 points [-]

I assume not. But this points to an answer I would have added to the question about predictions, if I understood what mainstream modern quantum physics says about this. Eliezer thinks that "we should be able to take that apart into a spatially local representation," -- note that the story links back to his own view, in this sequence. He presumably also believes in the quantization of space.

Given what people have said about density matrices, his approach may or may not make sense. But it seems directly related to the reason he won $200 betting against faster-than-light neutrinos. If he also wins the Higgs bet, we should update in favor of 'Eliezer takes the right broad approach to physics.'