[ExI] teachers

[Jason Resch]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, 5:32 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 1:59 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 1:47 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you at least understand why I might believe superdeterminism implies
>>> a malicious, adversarial, conspiratorial process?
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  However, I believe that attributing such motives and malice to
>> physics is incorrect, even in this case.
>>
>
> Hmm...on review, this might have been a bit too curt.  Some examples, then:
>
> "Why can't I accelerate past the speed of light?  This 'relativity'
> nonsense is physics conspiring against me!"
>
> "Why can't I have a perpetual motion machine?  Entropy is a conspiracy
> against me!"
>
> "Why can't I know in advance how long a computation will take and if it
> will ever complete?  Every time I try, something conspires against me!"
>
> I believe that claims that superdeterminism is a malicious, adversarial,
> conspiratorial process are similarly incorrect.
>


I think you are still missing something. These aren't comparable situations.

Jason

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