SMP Life is Being Drunk -Random Content thread

From the WSJ on verbal flubs spoken at executive sales meetings.

"Too many cooks in the soup."

"Read between the tea leaves"

"We need to talk about the elephant in the closet."

"I'm not trying to beat a dead horse to death."

But "as happy as a canary in a coal mine", may not be all that much of a flub. Who else has so many friends who are always so happy to see him and so sad to see him go.

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Isn't mixed metaphor the more accurate term here?

Overheard in the pub the other night: "Too many straws that broke the camel's back."

Fluid for thought.

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Jim Thorpe, 2pm. Today.

I like Smoken Boy in Florida and Coal Battle for the Arkansas.

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Koji Fungus

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Every Perspective is a Dimension of Existence.

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Now be like Neo.

I've been pondering this for a while. Relativity and quantumn physics are expected by considering the universe as a computer.

Another thing we would expect the universe as computer to do is create the unseen distant world as we bring it into view. Does this have any implications for physics we could expect/test for?

hi chez

Suppose you replace the sand in an hourglass with a random amount of randomly sized grains of sand. You ask, how long will it take for the sand to run through. You could try to calculate it by examining each grain of sand and analyzing how the flow is disrupted as different combinations of sand sizes fit through the Narrow. Suppose you conclude the flow is so chaotic that the problem is not computable. However, you can also just turn the glass over and time it as you let it run. Then you could say that the device itself amounts a computer tailored specifically for calculating the answer to this "non-computable" problem.

It's in this sense I'm saying the "Universe" is a "computer" that "calculates" our "reality". And since our "Reality" is the result of the "calculations" of a "computer" you could say it's a "Virtual Reality".

I think this is more than just a play on words. It invites a closer look at what we mean by them and the perspectives they invoke. What are the metaphysics behind our perspectives as we look at this from various angles?

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It would mean that the universe is finite, for one thing.

It would mean that non-computable real numbers don't exist in the universe, because not even the universe can compute them.

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I don't see numbers entering into this. The Universe computes itself by becoming itself.

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Will an AI observer collapse the wave function if used in the double slit experiment.

Anything that interacts with a quantum system and takes a specific measurement does so, so yes.

Any thoughts on how this might affect Wigner's Friend?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s....

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Almost no physicists believe in collapse by consciousness, so it doesn't matter if one says that the wave collapsed into a cheeseburger

It makes me think that my Mrs Schridinger thought experiment wasn't first

There is no paradox. Just parantheses

Hi BTM

We are witnesses to existence.

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