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AFAICT, there is no particular reason to believe that locality is the way things actually work, so the whole discussion is kind of irrelevant.
by trevyn 5y ago
AFAICT, there is no particular reason to believe that locality is the way things actually work, so the whole discussion is kind of irrelevant.
- q-big 5y agoThe author writes on this topic in the article: > First of all, the reason I am interested in superdeterminism has nothing whatsoever to do with physicalism or realism (I don’t know what these words mean to begin with). It’s simply that the collapse postulate in quantum mechanics isn’t compatible with general relativity because it isn’t local. [...] So: Why am I interested in superdeterminism? Because general relativity is local.
- ncmncm 5y agoEither it is or it isn't. You can't tell without an experimental determination. If you haven't done such an experiment, you don't know. You are always allowed to announce you don't want to know, or don't care one way or the other. But if somebody else figures out how to run the experiment, and does it, then they know and you don't; you have abandoned science. Again, that's always allowed, and almost everybody has. But then somebody else is pushing science forward, and you are just kvetching from the sidelines.
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