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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The meme creator absolutely butchered the vanilla version of Schrodinger's cat. It's not that the box contains either a live or dead cat and the observer is unaware of which it is, it's that the cat in the box exists simultaneously in a state of being dead as well as being alive.

[–] Rudee@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So we can fix that row:

  • Schrödinger's Gun : The gun is both loaded and empty. Reality will converge onto the "truth" only when it is fired.
  • Schrödinger's razor : The box contains both the solution to your problem and a means to make that problem much worse.
  • Schrödinger's law : The future is both in a state where things go right, and in one where they go wrong.
[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Those are much better, and arguably true.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Schrödingers razor is just booze

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Occam’s Razor is also wrong. It’s not about simplicity, but assumptions. The explanation that makes the fewest assumptions is usually the right one.

“God created everything” is a very simple explanation, but it requires the massive assumption that God exists.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 23 points 1 week ago

Schrödinger's Cat isn't dead OR alive. It's dead AND alive. Schrödinger wanted to demonstrate with this thought experiment how bat shit crazy quantum physics are.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, Occam's Razor doesn't say the simpler solution is the right one. It says that when two theories compete, the simpler one is preferred.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I had understood it to mean, the more simple a theory is, the more likely it is to be true.

E.g. "organisms change through time to become the creatures that exist today" vs. "organisms change through time to become the creatures that exist today through the intelligent design of a creator."

The former, having fewer conditions to be true, is more likely to be true.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That’s also not right. It’s about assumptions. The explanation that makes the fewest assumptions is usually the right one. “Simple”, in this context, means the fewest external necessities to explain some phenomena. So, “god started the fire” might be “simpler” in its construction and interpretation, but “an electrical discharge from the sky started the fire” is “simpler” in that it doesn’t require a force external to nature.

[–] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Murphy's law is about bad things occurring. A cat gin a box of a good thing. Murphy's Cat should really be about there not being a cat in the box.

[–] ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The cat could be dead ;c

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I definitely have Occam's Cat

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Total horror movie vibes

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

Schrodinger's and Murphy's guns independently are good foundational principles for firearms safety.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

The XKCD is strong with this one.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

I want a book where this chart is the tenets of their religion and checkov, Schrodinger, Occam, and Murphy are ancient heros who brought order to the world.