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[Patiently] So you think that current political system in the Western countries is better? The system when half of the US population hate the elected president, and recently another half hated previous president?

I have heard that in California there is something similar to the system in the Switzerland? However I am sure it does not work propebly, because the referendum can be initiated only by two ruling parties and nobody will suggest a referendum relating really important things for the people, like the cryptocurrencies legalization. Currently it is possible to perform referendums via the internet. so a referendum each week is indeed possible. But the ruling politicians are not motivated to implement this...

I see that in modern countries, which call themselves democratic, a hidden authoritarianism is mainteined by votings where the citizens can vote for both something good and something bad in ac single vote. For example, the Americans voted for Trump because they disliked the inflation and transgenders in big sport, but now Trump or Vance will say that they voted for prohibiting abortions and stopping the support of Ukraine. In Russia, a sample of such packed voting was e.g. the referendum of 2020 for changes in the constitution; it can be said, that the Russians mostly voted for new parts like “A marriage is a union between a man and a woman”, but after that Putin was saying that they voted for his next term. It seems evident that when the Russians voted for Putin in 2024 – they voted not for such things as blocking the youtube. I am starting to think now that the main reason of their vote for Putin was the following – if a democratic candidate won the presidential elections, a civil way could start in Russian. Putin has done very much for such situation. This is similar to Syria – Asad has allowed the Syrians to choose only between him and a civil war.

Such replies usually have the meaning "if someone threatens me with nukes, it is rational for me to surrender". No, it is not rational: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game) If Putin and Kim win through their nuclear threats, their appetites will increase and at the next step Putin will say that he will start a nuclear war if the West don't purchase the Russian oil at a high price.

They are both together. I have an idea, that Russia usually overcame Europe, because Russia is placed geographically at the East related to Europe. And all countries which are placed at the East always win the wars with those which are placed to the West. The Mongols overcame Russia in 13th century, and so on. USA won the war with Japan in 1945, because USA is placed at the East for Japan.

China is supporting Putin. If China stops supporting him, the war would end.

Russian economy is now totally dependent on China: if China stops buying Russian oil, Russia would experience economic collapse and famine. Xi does not want to go this way yet, since he as a dictator supports dictator Putin. But Xi is probably unsatisfied with Putin's nuclear threats. I have already said that the West should declare that, in case of a very massive nuclear strike from Russia, the United States should retaliate not only against Russia, but also against of China. At the same time, there is a possibility to interest Xi with the following proposal. China will firstly join the sanctions; then Russia will experience an economic collapse and Putin's rating will fall to zero. And then Xi will give Putin an offer to become the governor of the province of Siberia in PRC. The Sibiria will go to China, the European part of Russia will go to the West. Putin, trying to save his life from a coup, will agree to these conditions and ensure the control over Russian nuclear arsenals. What do you think about this plan?

These two rulers are very similar: 1) Both came to power rather by accident; 2) Both showed themselves as relatively secular, not fanatical, maybe even pro-Western; 3) Both started their rule quite liberally; 4) In 2021, according to official data, Assad "got" 95% of votes in the first tour of the presidential election. Putin "got" 87% in the first tour in 2024. The next point is that any dictator benefits from the situation when the population have a little choice - either this dictator or a civil war. Please tell me if anyone knows how Assad did it in Syria. Currently I understand how Putin does this in Russia: 1) Now Chechnya is in fact an independent state, with a monarchical form of government, currently as an ally for the Russian Federation. But this "union" has to be paid for. Kadyrov has always shown himself to be anti-liberal; and if the next president starts democratic reforms )a thaw_, then Kadyrov will say that he and the Russian Federation are not on the same path, and this president will have to start a third Chechen war; 2) Until recently, another such figure was Evgeniy Prigozhin. He has always positioned himself as an extreme anti-liberal, and while he demanded to ban YouTube and turn Russia into the DPRK, Putin favored him and allowed him to grow; 3) One more such figure now is Viktor Zolotov, a chief of RosGuardia. As far as I understand it, he has his own army with armored vehicles and artillery.

Slightly more than a common person with high education. I know how to diagonalize a matrix with Jacobi algorithm, I know what how does a multiplication of two complex number look like (the "angles" are summed up).

I have found an information about the interpretation based on the two-state vector formalism (TSVF). I will try to retell in my own words what I saw, but I apologize in advance for not understanding many of the said. It is usually considered that the wave function "collapses after measurement", i.e. the collapse goes from the past to the future. However, in fact, we can just as well consider that the measurement collapses the WF from the future to the past (i.e. firstly a unitary evolution goes from the future to the past, then a jump due to measurement, etc.). The idea of weak measurements is based on the fact that you can simultaneously use two wave functions - the one from the past to the future and the one from the future to the past. This is called TSVF. If you take TSVF and throw out the collapse, i.e. threat it as the MWI, but with two WFs, then you get an interesting thing. From these two WFs, we can make a matrix similar to the density matrix, and this matrix will have closed dynamics and obey the von Neumann equation. So, if the usual density matrix simply becomes diagonal as a result of decoherence, then the density matrix of two WFs becomes not only diagonal, but also with only one 1 value on the diagonal. Thus, in this interpretation, it turns out that neither the collapse of the WF nor the existence of many universes is needed. We can interpret this as follows: if we take two MWI trees, one branching into the future, the other into the past (this depends on the initial and final conditions), superimposed them on each other, as a result, one branch is coincided and this is the actual universe. This looks a bit like the transactional interpretation, but I believe the TSVF interpretation is better, since it has determinism, while the transactional interpretation does not. The idea of TSVF interpretation can be formulated as follows: after preparation and before measurement of the system, there is an intermediate state, and it is determined not only by the initial controlled actions of the experimenter, but also by the final result of the measurement. What I have written above is a retelling of posts on the Internet forums, and I must say that I myself understand little here. As far as I understand, the TSVF interpretation combines the advantages of the Copenhahen and MW interpretations: it supports the determinism, and at the same time there are no multiple universes like in the MWI. Please help me understand more on this subject, and in particular I have a question - what is the density matrix?

Of course. When I argue with pro-Putin Russians, I try to tell them that the problems of the Western world (which are emphasized by the Russian propaganda) are caused not by an abundance of democracy (as the Russian propaganda shows), but rather by by a lack of democracy. I believe that the [] which is happening in Russia now, is also happening in the Western world, though in a more soft and hidden form. For Russians, this information is important since the Putin's propaganda tells them that the problems in the West are caused by the democracy, while in reality it is vice versa. For you, studding how the authoritarism works in Russia can be helpful for understanding the causes of your problems.

https://kimgriest.medium.com/real-reason-the-american-middle-class-is-disappearing-901cb78ababf The authors say that the inequality has been growing in the West in recent decades - the middle class is disappearing. This can be measured as the growth of the share of the world's money owned by the richest 1%. The authors attribute this to the fact that Reagan lowered taxes for the rich in the 80s. The authors also write that the mainstream Western mass media are silent about this problem or lie. This is evident with both CNN and Fox News (especially CNN). And this can be explained simply - these 1% of the richest are interested in this state of affairs, and control these media. I will add that other problems in the West have the same cause. Americans have chosen an old freak, and it is clear that in the US there would be millions of people who are younger, smarter ,etc. than Trump. But they are not given the opportunity to become candidates for presidency, because a smart president could become a threat to these 1% of the richest, so this is not in their interests.

You don't deny the Freudianism? It would be correct to say that the Russians know this at some hidden levels of unconsciousness, but not on the conscious level. I have read the book "Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder" by F. Putnam, and the author claimes that there is a great difference between the intellectual insight and the emotional one.

In a situation of constant nuclear threats, people still don't know how they work. The people in Russia are brainwashed, but it will be not true to say that they support the Putin's war and his nuclear threats. Most Russians are completely apolitical, they consider talks about politics as something slightly indecent, and they even don't understand that they risk of being annihilated in a nuclear war. The Putin's nuclear threats have a manipulative nature; if the Russians know about them, this would lead to a decrease of Putin's rating in Russia, and soon after that, a new Prigozhin in army will arize who will end the Putin's ruling. It would be a good decision, if Biden creates a public message to Russian on youtube with the information about the possilibities of nuclear war, the amount of nuclear weapon's in the US arsenals and the possibility to destroy the entire Russia. Another good decision will be the declaration that if Putin performs a nuclear armaggedon (massive nuclear strike), the USA will retalite and destroy not only Russia but also China , maybe even nuke one Indian city to kill the Modi's government, because China and India are maintaining Russia. A better way will be to initiate a UN Assembly voting relating this issue. Such a threat will probably make Xi afraid of a big nuclear war, so China and India will stop buying the oil from Russia.