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  • I agree.

    But the working class struggle that the comment mentioned is of course bigger than the genocide. Since they mentioned it, I wanted to learn more about their position. Discussing socialism and unionisation in the context of the class struggle does not diminish the genocide in Palestine.



  • It was not at all meant as a gotcha. Let me reformulate: “Which issues in particular are you referring to? The class struggle leads to a plethora of important societal issues to address, and I am interested in hearing some particular examples. One such example could be the issue of unionisation, which holds a great deal of nuance across political contexts around the world, and therefore is a particularly interesting microcosm of this topic.”

    If I had known that my question would be understood as hostile, I would certainly have put in more time to clarify what I meant. I’m still not sure why my question is hostile?









  • I don’t know, Many Worlds always led to more confusion than Copenhagen for me. But I suppose that’s a matter of taste since they’re equivalent.

    As per the relationship between measurement and entanglement, from an empiricist viewpoint all quantum mechanical terms are related to measurement. If entanglement didn’t affect the outcome of measurements, it wouldn’t exist.

    Indeed, you can disentangle an entangled system, which of course will change the outcome of measurements - that’s how you know it’s been disentangled.


  • Copenhagen interpretation doesn’t break down for quantum erasure. Upon measurement you collapse the total quantum state into a result where the two measurements are consistent, that’s simply what entanglement means.

    The timing of experiments, and the choice of what to measure, are elements ultimately irrelevant to the above statement, as the quantum erasure experiment demonstrates.


  • Unlike the Copenhagen interpretation, it does not privilege measurement over other types of interactions between systems.

    Hmm, you could say it instead privileges the subjective experience over other types of interaction. There’s no reason in principle why you couldn’t experience every “world” at the same time, in the same way a measurement could in principle return all possible results at the same time.

    But you don’t. Somehow your experience of reality is above unitary time evolution, even though “you” aren’t.