After my physics degree I thought it would be a good idea to learn something about business so I got an MBA.

While at business school I couldn't believe the crap they teach there. Especially the believe in the efficient market hypothesis is a joke.

But it wasn't all a waste of money. Having to get everything done as part of a diverse team, while being swamped with work, did prepare me well for consulting, and according to my wife markedly improved my social skills :-)

The US government should have seized all of their American assets and forced them into bankruptcy.

No company deserves to survive a screw-up of this magnitude.

I did read the article and while I had a typo in the first line of my comment, I think it's silly that he says he would be less likely to hire someone with an MBA.

As a one-time worker bee who is now a part of senior management (with an MPA and not an MBA, although they are pretty similar) I understand what he is saying but I disagree that people should have a better chance of being hired because they have the three letters next to their name.

I hire for open reqs based on the PERSON and their SKILLSET, not the degree they may or may not hold. You know, the way it should be. What Musk is promoting through another one of his ridiculous soundbites is that we should pay more attention to degrees (good or bad) than the skills someone brings along with them.

Musk can be absolutely brilliant and incredibly and insanely stupid all at the same time.

Exactly! Let's be open minded here.

Yes, but what if they put some really icky radar swallowing paint on their drone? Since all the military tech is top secret I cannot know the dreck that it may contain. I prefer the familiar horrors.

Not too worried about our CANDU reactors. They ever so often spell some tritium but given the seize of the lake not really too much of a concern.

I get my freshwater from there.

Boy, you sure like your labels. So I am a postmodernist now? Well, I guess there's a first for everything. I've been called worse :-)

Whatever. No idea what brought this on, but you are apparently stuck in your world view.

The labels are meaningless, probably most self-identified progressives would also identify as individualists. The fact that you keep grasping for them shows me how deeply ingrained this idea of a one dimensional political spectrum seems to be.

It effectively prevents Americans from coming together to champion common causes that cut across this divide e.g. fighting the ever increasing surveillance, the pointless war on drugs, overseas military adventures that have no benefits to the average American, and a financial industry that has become a drag rather than an enabler for the productive economic sectors.

It's not about the labels but the left/right dichotomy. It is BS.

Your language betrays that you are still fully caught up in the bipartisan world-view, which is nothing but a chimera to keep the peasants quarreling amongst themselves.

Yes, but sheep that labour under the illusion that they are sheepdogs are still a sad sight to behold.

Indeed, the understanding of decoherence has fortunately made great strides since Bohr and Heisenberg coined the Copenhagen Interpretation, and we have a much better understanding of how the interference 'dissipates'.

You are exactly putting the focus on the remaining most intriguing puzzle, why do we experience a single reality? I.e. only see one moon, as Einstein put it. To me it seems there's a deep link between decoherence and entropy lurking in there, something, that despite all the QIS progress, we still don't quite capture.