[ExI] Google’s Willow Quantum Chip: Proof of the Multiverse?

[Jason Resch]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Free will is an idea so bad it's not even wrong, it's 100% triple
> distilled extra-virgin gibberish.
>
> Fair.  It is the most common objection I hear to superdeterminism:
> "Free will obviously exists and is obviously incompatible with
> superdeterminism."
>

Such blanket pronouncements require defining what one means by free will.
What is it you are proposing will is free from? If will is the embodiment
of a systems own goals, preferences, inclinations, etc. I would argue that
a deterministic low-level substrate is a requirement to have a reliable
implementation of such a will. This is the position of compatibilism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism . Certainly those that claim
free will must be neither random, nor deterministic, are inconsistent. But
note that chaotic/unpredictable systems can exist in fully deterministic
regimes, and there is no incompatibility in defining free will as the
unpredictable nature of sufficiently complex systems.


>
> > But that's not the reason I called super determinism idiotic, it's
> because a greater violation of Occam's Razor is impossible to imagine.
>
> I find superdeterminism to be simpler than MWI and the other
> explanations, which - to me -says that Occam's Razor points toward
> superdeterminism.
>

Super-determinism is the least simple of all theories that have ever been
proposed in the history of science. It requires continuous conspiratorial
miracle interventions every time a scientist concocts and conducts an
experiment trying to disprove it. It is worse than those who answer "God
did it" for every question, because for the case of superdeterminism, it is
equivalent to answering "God is doing it to fool us and give us a false
impression of how reality really is."

Jason
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