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Playing the lotery is a good analogy to the Schroedinger cat experiment. That is, as long as you don't check the numbers

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[-] AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com 4 points 1 month ago

Except that Schrödinger was trying to exemplify how impractical the Copenhagen interpretation was; that trying to apply quantum properties to systems larger than atoms would be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

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