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What I mean to say is that the detector is not what's changing the particle; It's the process of learning about an aspect of the quantum system that forces it into one state or another (at least from our own personal perspectives).

Sorta! According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, there's an upper limit to how much we can "know" about the given state of a quantum system. This isn't an issue with our measurements, but a fundamental property of the universe itself. By measuring one aspect of a quantum system (for example, the momentum of a particle), we become less certain about other aspects of the system, even if we had already measured them before (such as the position of the same particle).

Though (as far as we know), we aren't going to run out of quantum states or anything like that.

Not exactly. Quantum physics applies no matter how you measure it. The double-slit experiment is an example of this: Photons moving through two slits will form a wave interference pattern on a detector plate, even though the detector doesn't affect the position of the photons beforehand.

It's more like: when you become aware of the results of a quantum measurement, you yourself become a part of the quantum system, and being a part of the system requires measurements to have real values. Whether you should interpret this as a wave-function collapse or branching into multiple parallel universes is up for debate though.

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Oh that makes sense, I suppose. Thank you for informing me!

I've actually messed with this a bit. The problem is more that it can't count to begin with. If you ask it to spell out each letter individually (ie each letter will be its own token), it still gets the count wrong.

also since when do you need to sign paperwork to consent to being deported?

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what if I have three hands?

Wow these portraits are not very flattering

There weren't any active communities I could find that my question would fit into, so I went with this one

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