there’s something extremely funny to me about claiming there is no such thing as reality, while using a device made of sand we convinced to do math and display pictures.

do y’all have any idea how mandatory it is to modern engineering that there is a unified reality with compressible models that can be converged on from any starting point? do y’all have any idea just how ridiculously many converging lines of evidence are behind the act of turning sand into high frequency mixed signal very large scale integrated circuits?

this shit isn’t fucking magic, it doesn’t happen because of vibes. it happens because tens of millions of engineers and technicians in a couple of dozen different disciplines understand the absolute shit out of reality. specifically, they understand the absolute shit out of a teeny tiny slice of reality, and if they weren’t all working on different slices of the exact same reality, none of this shit would ever function.

but carry on i guess. the sand that does math will keep doing it regardless of whether you believe in it.

@AvengingFemme , to be fair, on the deepest level it appears that reality ("local realism") is incompatible with quantum theory. This has been verified experimentally. In a fundamental sense, we don't have any idea what is going on with the universe. Hence the stalemate between interpretations of QM, none of them making testable predictions which could resolve the question.

And, that being said, I'd guess that 99.99% of those saying the world isn't real aren't talking about Bell's Inequality. 🙃