Friends Don’t Let Friends Learn Probability from Yudkowsky | Science After Sunclipse (www.sunclipse.org)

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For convenience, I gathered a few comments of mine into a blog post.

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[-] self@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

If you really want to cite someone he admires, you could note that Eliezer Yudkowsky uses 1 as a probability when trying (and failing) to explain quantum mechanics, because he writes probability amplitudes of absolute value 1.

I’m glad I’ve never pissed off a career physicist, cause this is concise, targeted destruction

[-] titotal@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

If you want more of this, I wrote a full critique of his mangled intro to quantum physics, where he forgets the whole "conservation of energy" thing.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for taking on that task (I linked to your post to provide further details).

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