Chi is as real as other functionally predictive mental representations, but it probably does not work like you imagine
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Replying to @Plinz
i dunno how you imagine I imagine it! i'm seeing all kinds of crazy long range magnetic effects that move magnets, colors, trees, and nervous energy with much much more powerful interactions than 1/r^2. i'd love to have another physicist at close range to pin it down.
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Replying to @wildflowerearth
I don’t doubt that you are seeing this, but our senses are not reliable. You need to prove that you are not overfitting.
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Replying to @Plinz
to who?
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Replying to @wildflowerearth
I am not talking about social proof. There is no subject, no “who”.
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Replying to @Plinz @wildflowerearth
Epistemology: you are in one of the possible universes, you cannot know which one. You must not just pick one but maintain all possibilities and assign confidence according to evidence to obtain probability distributions.
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Replying to @Plinz @wildflowerearth
tangential maybe, but: this isn't right decision theory (though it's often right on the margin for us). you're going to have infeasibly-resolvable uncertainty and feasible plans that help in world A and don't hurt in world B, so it's good to act as if you're "overconfident in A"
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Replying to @argletargle @Plinz
I've been playing with strategically being "quite certain of position" and then "quite certain of momentum" and it seems to be having good effects.
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Replying to @wildflowerearth @argletargle
How do you know that you are off the rails, if you replaced measurements with fixing the needle to “quite certain”? This is not a theoretical question.
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Replying to @Plinz @argletargle
i dunno. this is a test flight in the universe. measurements are a great idea when you can capture it. but our eyes and bodies are more sensitive to many things than most feasibly obtainable instruments. many physicists/inventors work out the basic ideas in their bodies first.
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But they don’t publish before they have a reason to think they have a contribution
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Replying to @Plinz @argletargle
and that's why they can't even play this game.
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