Physics, coding and black metal.

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Apparently also politics when it doesn’t devolve into screaming into aether.

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  • My simple uncontroversial claims

    None of these is uncontroversial, C isn’t even well-defined. I’d argue that B is correct only if A is correct. And A cannot be correct, since it leads to multitude of cotnradictions, one of which I’m going to demonstrate.

    It appears from context to be the first: the claim that indeterminism means events are not explained by their causes. But that’s just the definition of indeterminism

    No, it most definitely is not. If you used this as a definition, I’m fairly certain that most physicists would absolutely not agree with your B.

    If you deny that indeterminism means things aren’t determined by observable causes, then what does it mean?

    Indeterminism means that if an experiment is repeated with the same parameters, there are no guarantees to get the same result. Nothing more than that.

    Your definition implies that there needs to be a cause in the first place. And that is bordering on begging the question, because with that definition you are guaranteed to reach a point where there is something “unexplainable” (since there are infinite amount of layers), which can always be attributed to whatever supernatural thing you choose. There is absolutely no need for this to be the case.

    In fact, you yourself quoted the textbook

    the outcome is intrinsically random.

    Emphasis mine. That means, there is no cause, it’s an intrinsic property of the theory, especially in Copenhagen interpretation, which is the status quo. As your definition implies a cause, it cannot apply here. There are other contradictions, but this one is simple and I only need one to show that the premise is flawed, and your other points rely on that.

    you have not substantiated your claims with anything.

    My only claim is that you are incorrect. There aren’t really too many papers written about that. (I hope) I’ve shown your premise to be false because of faulty definitions, what more would you need? None of the stuff you quoted is supporting you, and in fact contradicts you, unless we specifically assume that other people use the definition you’ve given, which, again, is already shown to be erroneous.



  • Go on then: what definition do they use?

    Natural means pretty much “element of the physical universe, identified by observation”.

    You’re claiming in another comment to this thread that you have M.Sc., you should be aware of this, please stop wasting everyone’s time.

    Slapping “quantum” in front of something generally makes it involve indeterminism (excepting the many-worlds interpretation)

    Indeterminism is by no means non-natural, and it does not make things any less observable. We can observe quantum states just fine.

    And as for

    Yeah all the Bell stuff

    “All the Bell stuff” doesn’t have anything to do with “Didn’t some quantum nondeterminism prove the existence of effects without a natural cause?”

    And no, it didn’t. AFAIK there are exactly zero physicists who argue that.

    You made a ludicrous claim, and are unable or unwilling to back it up even a bit, yet somehow you feel continuing this without anything to show is a good use of anyone’s time. If you are not going to make an actual argument, I do not see value in continuing this conversation, as all it does is make this thread more difficult to read for others who most likely are not very interested watching yet another internet argument sidethread.


  • There have been plenty of discoveries opposed by religion X. Those historically do not have significant impact on prevalence of such a religion.

    I do think answers explaining why any answer to the original question suffers from logical fallacies are equally good to those that do try to get to the OP’s intent, and I think it is good to have both. I do think the literal answers are more “straight” (and I tend to go to the literate mode when talking about science), so that’s what I went up with.




  • If they were, it has nothing to do with nature being supernatural. It just means that nature’s state is not locally real. That does not tie into religion in any objective way.

    In addition, both of those articles are (slightly) wrong. There was a lenghty discussion about how in r/physics when they came out. The tl;dr is that it boils down to:

    • locality
    • realism
    • independence of measurement

    Pick two.

    But that has no relevance to religion other than you can make either philosophical or religious argument out of anything.





  • I guess that list could be helpful for some, but for me (and IMO, music production in general), it’s woefully inadequate to the point of hilarity.

    Pro audio has been a complete mess in Linux for ages, and it’s not even close to where it should be in order to be generally usable. Every 7-8 years or so when my old music computer starts to die I try and check if it has made substantial improvement, but apart from Musescore actually being good, it is hard to find any tangible progress from 15 years ago. Pipewire gives me some hope, but it’s far from production-ready in Pro audio world. And I’m not really going to get rid of all the VST stuff I’ve bought in the last 20 years (all of which still works out of the box on a new computer!)

    In addition, making music is the one hobby I have to get me away from tinkering with computers. I am not interested if I could make my Linux setup equally good if I spent weeks tinkering on it, when it’s literally easier for me to work for a week and buy a Macbook Air (or whatever crappy windows PC), where I get all of my old work ready for action in under a day, and I can trust that everything I do will just work, and work well at that. And it does it while allowing me to work remotely with other musicians since we can all use the same stuff.

    I’m pretty sure I’ll be in my grave before FOSS Pro Audio ever gets there, unfortunately.

    Edit: Ironically, the one FOSS thing I would love to use in my audio stuff is Guitarix, which is then the thing that doesn’t interop well with anything else. And I would love to have easy way to do all that I do on (Win/Mac Os) on Linux, but 20 years of disappointment is pretty hard to overcome at this point.





  • I’m not the greatest fan of Thunderf00t presentations either, but this comment of yours is almost comically missing the point.

    Believing that we can change culture of nearly 200 nations is not going to happen “now”. And that is right there in the video as well.

    Also, your numbers are way off the mark, far into the absolute bullshit sector. And that is according to pretty much all the climate science we currently have. Not even all of our agriculure amounts to “half of the man-made emissions”, much less animal agriculture.

    Comment I was replying to was speaking of half of the man-made methane emissions, my bad. I’ll leave the numbers part below for anyone interested.

    Agriculture in total is around 24% to 26% of the global emissions, depending on the source, but both numbers are still easily within error bars. That is a signifcant amount, but still not even close to the “half” you are claiming. But that’s still all agriculture, livestock, fisheries and pasture management are the largest part of that, sure. But that is still at around 30%-31% of the agriculture total. Taken the worst case, that is still 26% of 31% of 100%, which amounts to 9% (rounded up for good measure) of our GHG emissions in CO2 equivalent.

    That is pretty fucking far from your “half”, which, for the uninitiated is 50%.

    All this kind of completely bonkers numbers-fudging is doing is making it harder for people who actually do the math and understand the numbers to forward the message. The more people keep lying, the harder it is for actual scientists to convince politicians about the issue, since some asshole is ready to throw “they claim this kind of bullshit too!” -argument.


  • I applaud the stubbornness. If enough people are stubborn enough, maybe linux pro audio some day becomes less of a mess.

    I’ve tried every couple of years since 2006 to see if I could finally ditch my windows/mac box, since making music is my last hurdle, but it’s still been too much of a chore for me. I make music to get rid of computer-induced stress, so it’s the one place where I’m not interested in configuring for days.


  • Check out KX Studio. Ubuntu Studio is also a thing where most stuff comes preinstalled and it might be good enough for some.

    Though I would still say that it’s still faster and easier to get a job, earn a months pay and buy a Windows/Mac laptop for music production than try to get shit done in Linux. Pipewire kinda-sorta-works if you aren’t doing anything weird, but it’s not going to be optimal either, and it’s at best beta-quality software still.