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No, not at all. That is a simple consequence of ordinary probability theory that is used in almost all interpretations of quantum mechanics. As I said, superdet
by knzhou 7y ago
No, not at all. That is a simple consequence of ordinary probability theory that is used in almost all interpretations of quantum mechanics. As I said, superdeterminism is much much much more radical.
Here is a more appropriate analogy. Suppose I'm playing a shell game with you and you have to guess where the prize is. You guess the wrong position a million times in a row. Something analogous to this happens when we try to test quantum mechanics. Other interpretations of quantum mechanics explain this by saying, e.g. that the prize doesn't have a definite position to begin with, so the act of checking where it is can't be interpreted as just revealing a preexisting fact. The superdeterministic explanation is: "well, there's nothing to explain. You were simply determined to lose by the initial conditions of the universe. It couldn't have gone any other way."