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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by nwallin on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:50PM (#22563663)
You can't.

Not just the way it's arbitrarily hard from an engineering perspective to design an experiment to disprove string theory. It is theoretically impossible, the way it's impossible to distinguish between Copenhagen and many worlds.

Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by vilhelm_s on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:52PM (#22564020)
No, you actually can. The authors of this article discuss the issue more in their longer paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06462

The idea is that superdeterminstic theories are deterministic, while quantum mechanical measurements are random, so you should be able to set up an experiment where QM predicts you would just get random results, but actually you get the same result each time.

Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by bosswipe on Friday March 13, 2020 @02:13AM (#22565156)
There are many classical physics experiments you could do where you understand all the physics and formulas to excruciating detail and you control every variable but you still can't get the same results everytime. Things like throwing dice, as mentioned in the article, or the chaos generated by flowing fluids. Given that any superdeterministic mechanisms would be even even more complex and weird and unknown it seems impossible to disprove. Any failed experiment could be excused by saying that there are more unknown uncontroled variables.
Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by zelphirkalt on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:12AM (#22565379)
Well, the determinist would argue, that, if you cannot predict the result reliably every time, you do not actually know all the variables, even if you think you do.
Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by GoblinSlayer on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:13AM (#22566079)
Setting up such an experiment means to control hidden variables, but then they aren't hidden.
Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by vilhelm_s on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:34AM (#22567551)
That's the whole point right? The hope is to figure out what the hidden variables were, to make better predictions than quantum mechanics could. To un-hide them, as it were.