[ExI] teachers

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2023-08-27 09:33, efc--- via extropy-chat wrote:

> Thank you very much Stuart, I was just about to ask for a book and you 
> already thought of that.
> 
> But what about superdeterminism?
> 
> Wouldn't that also be one of the better "candidates" even though it 
> goes
> against our intuition?

Not at all. It would mean that quantum mechanics (the most accurate 
scientific theory to date) is completely wrong. Superdeterminism would 
mean that all agency, choice, chance, luck, and randomness is an 
illusion. It would literally mean that time is entirely scripted from 
beginning to end with the bizarre property that the characters in the 
script are forced to both run experiments to test if the world is 
scripted and every experiment forces them to reach the conclusion that 
the world is random and there is no script.

It would be like the universe being a book where the plot is that 
numerous physicists are conducting experiments to see if they are 
characters in a prewritten book, but their every attempt to break or 
even see the fourth wall ends in complete and utter failure and no 
matter how hard they try, they cannot predict happens next even though 
it is already written.

Stuart LaForge