<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 12:37 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM Jason Resch <<a href="mailto:jasonresch@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasonresch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> Yesterday, when Kimi was asked to compare the Multiverse with Superdeterminism, it preferred the MWI option due to the severe problems posed by superdeterminism.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Today, I never mentioned superdeterminism, but just asked Kimi to consider how unlikely the multiverse is, as in your comment above. Kimi agreed with you, but did not suggest superdeterminism as the alternative. Kimi discussed the problems with MWI and concluded that at present, we don't know how to solve the measurement problem. We await further research on this mystery. :)<br>
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>> I agree with that conclusion: we don't know for sure if it's MWI,<br>
>> superdeterminism, or something else. The discussion was about what<br>
>> each of us finds more likely, and why.<br>
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> Did you notice that the AI described superdeterminism as "conspiratorial?"<br>
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I checked again, and neither "superdeterminism" nor "conspiratorial"<br>
appear in the conversation at<br>
<a href="https://www.kimi.com/share/19a73bad-87d2-8674-8000-000039699934" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.kimi.com/share/19a73bad-87d2-8674-8000-000039699934</a> that<br>
Bill posted.<br>
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Your conversation had a bunch of loaded questions, as I pointed out,<br>
so it's irrelevant if they appeared there.<br>
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> I think Bill's conversation shows this is not some kirk of my description of superdeterminism, but a core part of superdeterminism.<br>
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As superdeterminism is not mentioned at all in that conversation, this<br>
conclusion does not follow from that particular data.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was referring to Bill's original conversation with the AI on superdeterminism:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.kimi.com/share/19a6fcce-a8a2-8623-8000-0000e0a140f6">https://www.kimi.com/share/19a6fcce-a8a2-8623-8000-0000e0a140f6</a></div><div><br></div><div>E.g.:</div><div><ul><li>1. It Appears to Undermine Science Itself<br>This is the core objection. If experimenters' choices are pre-determined by hidden variables, then science loses its ability to discover truth. As physicists Shimony, Horne, and Clauser argued in 1976, superdeterminism would allow a "conspiracy" where nature always arranges itself to produce results that look like quantum mechanics, regardless of the actual underlying laws<br><br></li><li>Critics argue superdeterminism requires the universe's initial conditions to be suspiciously fine-tuned to produce the exact correlations we observe, making it seem like a "conspiracy theory"<br><br></li><li>Most physicists prefer to accept "spooky action at a distance" rather than live in a universe where every experimental result might be a cosmic conspiracy.<br><br></li><li>Superdeterminism solves Bell's theorem by accepting conspiratorial correlations - It claims our "free" measurement choices are secretly predetermined to align with hidden quantum states from the Big Bang. This is often criticized as making science impossible, since any experimental result could be dismissed as a cosmic setup . </li></ul></div><div> </div><div> Jason</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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