<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 5:44 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 2:23 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 4:58 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello Adrian and Jason,<br>
<br>
I don't think that anyone here actually believes the universe is <br>
conspiring against anyone, but my interpretation is that it is just a way <br>
to convey meaning.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is what one has to literally believe of superdeterminism is true</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Incorrect. Superdeterminism does not require the universe to be a conscious entity capable of conspiring. </div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree the universe need not be conscious, but a conspiracy, of some kind, is necessary.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I noticed looking at that thread from 2016, that it was actually you who first introduced the term conspiracy in relation to superdeterminism.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Just because you are unable to access certain information does not mean there is an active conspiracy to keep you from it.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">From reading those past threads it seems you never set aside time to see what Bell's result was saying. If you had, you would perhaps better appreciate what I and others back then we're trying to communicate.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Until you do, you will not understand just how outlandish superdeterminism is. It is equivalent to saying there's a rule in nature that makes it so when people flip coins (and something is happening to make their coin come up heads 66% of the time), you propose that rather than apply or find some reason to explain this aberration, you instead propose that for some unlucky reason, the universe just happens to be a place where whenever a person moves their thumb to flick a coin, the laws and this universe are so ordained to cause these anomalous events (over and over again), no matter how people alter or change their thumbs or thumb tossing method, no matter who coaches then to learn to flip coins in different ways, no matter what coins they happen to use, these people just live in that unlikely universe where strange mathematically improbable things are destined to happen forever, and they can't escape it. These poor people are fooled into falsely concluding that a law is nature causes heads to come up 66% of the time, rather than 50% as probability theory would suggest.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Do you consider this a reasonable explanation for why the coin tossings come up heads more than tails?, That those unfortunate people just happen to live in a very strange place where very odd unexpected behavior things always happen, violating math and logic and fool them into thinking coin tosses naturally come up heads 66% of the time? This is exactly the form of the answer superdeterminism provides to explain the Bell inequality.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div></div>