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Agreed. This line: > But because of the historical legacy, researchers who have worked on or presently work on Superdeterminism have been either ignored or ri

by pjs_ 7y ago

Agreed. This line: > But because of the historical legacy, researchers who have worked on or presently work on Superdeterminism have been either ignored or ridiculed. is too strong. I would say that the historical legacy does not have much to do with it - the reason that superdeterminism is ignored or ridiculed is that it looks absolutely wild to most physicists - much more mind-bending than the vanilla story of the Bell test, which is mad enough to begin with. That's not to say that it is ruled out - just that we have avoided it for pretty sensible reasons, rather than stupidity or some sort of blind spot.

naasking 7y ago
> That's not to say that it is ruled out - just that we have avoided it for pretty sensible reasons, rather than stupidity or some sort of blind spot. I have to question the validity of this argument, because generations of physicists have been taught to give up realism in order to accept QM. Superdeterminism is no weirder than giving up realism, it's just a weirdness to which you've grown accustomed.