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The remark on the Aharonov post-selection is weird coming from Aaronson's usual hard adherence to known physics - postselection is relevant in the quantum world
by mileszim 9y ago
The remark on the Aharonov post-selection is weird coming from Aaronson's usual hard adherence to known physics - postselection is relevant in the quantum world only. For Aaronson to twist it into an argument of cosmology seems markedly out of character.
- yakult 9y agoIt is, of course, a joke. He's doing a reductio ad absurdem at the end of a tightly argued post about information theory. It's the advantage of doing a blog post rather than a paper, I suppose.
- mileszim 9y agoGood point, I liked the work he's criticizing so I think I'm currently primed to take the post too seriously