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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by GoblinSlayer on Friday March 13, 2020 @07:37AM (#22566446)
Evolution of the local patch is predictable from the patch alone. Violation of inequation is when this evolution has correlation with a distant patch. Copenhagen interprets this correlation as causation, hence FTL.
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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by zelphirkalt on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:40PM (#22580009)
> Evolution of the local patch is predictable from the patch alone.

How do you know, that there is no non-local influence, that makes your predictions "from the patch alone" incorrect? I don't think this can be easily excluded as a possibility.

We can assume that there is no non-local influence and try to make progress from there, but we might be wrong about it, which is what the article is getting at, if I understand it correctly.

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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by GoblinSlayer on Monday March 16, 2020 @08:00AM (#22591940)
The article describes nonlocality, but doesn't support it. Instead it supports superdeterminism, which is local.
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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by feanaro on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:09AM (#22582761)
> Evolution of the local patch is predictable from the patch alone.

Only if you take the experimenter and his decision as part of the local patch, and take the decision to be determined by the same state which also determines the experiment's outcome, which is essentially what superdeterminism is, no?

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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by GoblinSlayer on Monday March 16, 2020 @04:42AM (#22591036)
Predictability is essentially determinism, not necessarily superdeterminism.
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