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24075 Peter D
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Feb 1, 2012
6:37 pm
... End of Time by Julian Barbour. Adrian Kent's critique of MWI, for the other POV. Emperor's New Mind and Road to Reality by Roger Penrose....
24076 Alan Forrester
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Feb 1, 2012
10:38 pm
... So the logical conclusion on seeing equations of motion for physical systems that say information propagates from one place to another at finite speed is...
24077 Ismail Atalay
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Feb 2, 2012
10:33 pm
... I think following words make my case in better wording "These entangled particles are still the same combined particle on some level". We (or maybe I) do...
24078 Peter D
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Feb 3, 2012
8:20 am
... Or you could take the view that there is a labor value in the plant and materials that companies supply "free" to workesr, and in ther distribution and...
24079 Alan Forrester
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Feb 3, 2012
1:06 pm
... How the information actually gets around has been explained in the MWI http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906007 http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6223 ... The best...
24080 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 3, 2012
9:01 pm
... The capitalist makes a finite investment, and can then make profit indefinitely out of it. All of the other parametres like distribution and planning...
24081 Ismail Atalay
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Feb 3, 2012
9:02 pm
... http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906007 http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6223 It should be simpler than this. When entangled particle pair have a single quantum...
24082 Alan Forrester
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Feb 3, 2012
9:59 pm
... No he can't. Businesses can go out of business. With each investment decision the capitalist has to decide whether to continue to invest in a business and...
24083 Alan Forrester
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Feb 3, 2012
10:00 pm
... How can you write down a state with precise numerical values if you don't have knowledge of the system in question? ... If you didn't have knowledge of the...
24084 hibbsa Offline Send Email Feb 4, 2012
11:20 am
... If someone, or a group of people - including scientists, share an insight or a intuition or suspicion, that there is a correct explanation hidden in the...
24085 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 4, 2012
11:24 am
... The upkeep of the materials involved is the product of someone else's work, which the capitalist buys from another capitalist with a portion of the money...
24086 hibbsa Offline Send Email Feb 4, 2012
11:47 am
Part of the free market argument is that within a given economic domain free trade will increase wealth over all, even if some sub-domains see their wealth...
24087 Alan Forrester
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Feb 4, 2012
11:47 am
... I didn't say that the capitalist maintains the machinery or checks to see if the ham is cold enough or whatever. He makes a decision about whether or not...
24088 Ismail Atalay
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Feb 4, 2012
12:55 pm
...   ...   ... Because I did not make a measurement. ... This is not the issue. I am not interested in knowing the system state before measurement or in...
24089 Alan Forrester
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Feb 4, 2012
12:55 pm
... I shouldn't expect any free market advocate worth his salt to make an argument that bad. I should expect a competent advocate of the free market to say...
24090 David Deutsch
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Feb 4, 2012
1:32 pm
... No. They could make a ball bearing by allowing a sphere of molten metal to solidify in free fall, and measure whether it acquired a bulge in the same...
24091 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 4, 2012
3:50 pm
... When a product of one company is cheaper than an identical one from another company, it doesn't necessarily mean that it was made more efficiently (in...
24092 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 4, 2012
3:50 pm
... These decisions can be made by the workers themselves. ... Because that would involve exploiting other people. Logically, we can't all be exploiters, as...
24093 Alan Forrester
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Feb 4, 2012
5:19 pm
... So why don't they make those decisions? ... You have not explained what constitutes exploitation or why that behaviour is bad. Alan...
24094 Peter D
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Feb 4, 2012
5:19 pm
... Of course, RQM is untroubled by nonlocality as well....
24095 Alan Forrester
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Feb 4, 2012
5:19 pm
... You've provided absolutely no arguments or evidence relevant to this issue. ... That wouldn't work: http://mises.org/resources/448 Alan [Non-text portions...
24096 Peter D
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Feb 4, 2012
7:42 pm
... Except that the west doesn't have free markets in the purist's sense. It has a sort of compromise. Or a seris of compromises, given the differences between...
24097 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 4, 2012
10:32 pm
... Because they have to obey the boss? (Also, because they would first need to form an organised structure for that purpose; but that goes together with...
24098 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 4, 2012
10:32 pm
... I don't see why I need to provide evidence for this. All I said was that a *possible* cause of the lower price is the lower wages. Logically, it is...
24099 Elliot Temple
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Feb 4, 2012
10:33 pm
... or why we can't all be super productive. all the low-productivity jobs can be automated. no need (as technology improves) to "exploit" (hire for a job he...
24100 Alan Forrester
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Feb 4, 2012
11:01 pm
... The workers don't have to obey the boss. They can quit. They can also suggest better ways of doing stuff and in many cases the boss will agree. ... The...
24101 Alan Forrester
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Feb 4, 2012
11:49 pm
... You said "usually", that's not the same as sometimes. Also, note that your point about identical products does nothing to address my argument. If a...
24102 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 5, 2012
12:04 pm
... Then they won't be making any decisions. ... They can suggest, but not decide. ... Why? ... No. The workers get paid for their work. The capitalist gets...
24103 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 5, 2012
12:05 pm
... Your example was about pots with different prices, not with different characteristics. ... It wouldn't matter if it were a free choice; that is, if they...
24104 tomegalovlito Offline Send Email Feb 5, 2012
12:05 pm
... We were talking about the relation between worker and capitalist. Who said anything about low and high productivity?...
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