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A friend and I were discussing whether there’s anything I could possibly say, on this blog, in 2025, that wouldn’t provoke an outraged reaction from my commenters. So I started jotting down ideas. Let’s see how I did. This entry was posted on Monday, April 14th, 2025 at 10:42 am and is filed under Announcements, Obviously I'm Not Defending Aaronson, Procrastination. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. I am OUTRAGED that you mistakenly called it Broadview and not Broadway. I am also sad for that bird. This was oddly relaxing and wonderful to read. Concerning 17, World Quantum Day may not be the best day to say it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but “Yes, I think there is a different angle.” It’s not that we missed empiricism, but in recent years I think we have sidelined empiricism too much. Both classical and quantum physics attempt to model and explain the datasets we obtain from experiments, but there are no-go the

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