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saturn comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: saturn 30 December 2011 12:43:33AM 2 points [-]
Comment author: shminux 30 December 2011 01:08:27AM -1 points [-]

Actually, this is evidence for making a classical object behave in a quantum way, which seems like the opposite of decoherence.

Comment author: saturn 30 December 2011 01:35:12AM 2 points [-]

I don't understand your point. How would you demonstrate macroscopic decoherence without creating a coherent object which then decoheres?

Comment author: Manfred 30 December 2011 06:39:29AM *  0 points [-]

The interpretations of quantum mechanics that this sort of experiment tests are not all of the same ones as the ones Eliezer argues against. You can have "one world" interpretations that appear exactly identical to many-worlds, and indeed that's pretty typical.

Maybe I should have written this in reply to the original post.