[ExI] teachers

[Jason Resch]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, 6:02 PM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, 5:32 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 1:59 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 1:47 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>>> 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:
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>> "Why can't I accelerate past the speed of light?  This 'relativity'
>> nonsense is physics conspiring against me!"
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>> "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.
>>
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>
> I think you are still missing something. These aren't comparable
> situations.
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I should elaborate:

If you understood the unique strangeness of superdeterminism, I would
expect you to say something along the lines of:

"Yes I can see why you might think nature is conspiring to always fool us,
however it is not for the reason X"


Jason



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