xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse
Title text:
Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3134/
This reminds me of this old hacker koan:
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. [Tom] Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
Well it'll work, until the unfixed root cause break the machine again.
what if the root cause was some system variable, which got reset on boot and never happens again (for example some code you wrote accidentally triggered lower voltage for your cpu, and you have hitches)
Isn’t it lawful neutral chaotic
It's the equipment used.
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