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Sudeep2
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"Probabilities express uncertainty, and it is only agents who can be uncertain. A blank map does not correspond to a blank territory. Ignorance is in the mind."

Eliezer, in quantum mechanics, one does not say that one does not have knowledge of both position and momentum of a particle simultaneously. Rather, one says that one CANNOT have such knowledge. This contradicts your statement that ignorance is in the mind. If quantum mechanics is true, then ignorance/uncertainty is a part of nature and not just something that agents have.

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Wither knowledge. It is not knowledge that causes this effect, it is the fact that momentum amplitude and position amplitude relates to one another by a fourier transform. A narrow spike in momentum is a wide blob in position and vice versa by mathematical necessity. Quantum mechanics' apparent weirdness comes from wanting to measure quantum phenomena with classical terms.
Sudeep2
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Eliezer, I have been following your blog since a while now. I greatly appreciate your posts and am astounded at how you have the time and enthusiasm to keep writing such quality stuff so regularly.

I remember that I have gone through times where I found myself strongly convinced by person X's arguments but finally going to "person X had been wrong in so-and-so regard etc". For instance, you could put X as Ayn Rand.

I would have probably gone to deify you too, if not for the fact that you are trying your best to keep your readers from turning into b... (read more)