Manon de Gaillande: I don’t believe most scientists would make such huge mistakes.
This is the main doubt I was expressing in my comment you quoted. I withdraw it.
Physicists are susceptable to irrational thinking too, but I went and stuck a “High Arcane Knowledge” label on QM. So while I didn’t mind understanding things many doctors don’t about mammographies, or things many biologists don’t about evolution, thinking I knew anything fundamental about QM many physicists hadn’t figured out set off a big “Who do you think you are?” alarm.
I hereby acknowledge quantum physicists as human beings with part-lizard-inherited, spaghetti-coded-hacky brains just like me, and will try to be more rational about my sources of doubt in future.
Eliezer,
This is the main doubt I was expressing in my comment you quoted. I withdraw it.
Physicists are susceptable to irrational thinking too, but I went and stuck a “High Arcane Knowledge” label on QM. So while I didn’t mind understanding things many doctors don’t about mammographies, or things many biologists don’t about evolution, thinking I knew anything fundamental about QM many physicists hadn’t figured out set off a big “Who do you think you are?” alarm.
I hereby acknowledge quantum physicists as human beings with part-lizard-inherited, spaghetti-coded-hacky brains just like me, and will try to be more rational about my sources of doubt in future.