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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by birdyrooster on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:54AM (#22564852)
I think for these people the detail just doesn't matter to them. They see near random behavior which is currently impossible to model and they shrug their shoulders and call it a magic, ad-hoc random variable.

And to a degree, they have a point: Does it really matter if we can predict the exact time and location of an alpha particle as is exits a black hole as hawking radiation? What good does modeling this phenomenon accurately give us?

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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by zelphirkalt on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:05AM (#22565356)
At some point all that "nah what's the advantage of knowing that exactly?" would pile up and we throw away to many questions of how things work, limitting progress. I think that these kind of things are what scientists want to know. "We" want to know everything and how it works, no?
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