David Deutsch has done a lot of impressive work, like coming up with the first universal quantum algorithm and providing a model that proves quantum mechanics is local.
Nonetheless, that does nothing to change the fact that crank websites almost always share three elements: they are works of metaphysics but claim to be physics, they have way more popular writing than academic writing (in this case, see the size of the media page vs the empty publications page), and they have a website advertising them (that's actually pretty unique to cranks, for some reason). I don't really have an axe to grind, it's just that the linked page is a typical crank website.
It’s not like it was developed by random nobodies, and it’s not like the default assumption should be that some work is the result of cranks (the default assumption should be agnosticism towards it)
Credentials offer some credibility, but imo not enough to make this seem worth spending time on.
Anyway, if I had to put the criticism into words: the entire page is weird jargon that doesn't appear to solve any problems that we have, puts a simple problem into inscrutable metaphysical terminology, and the authors didn't feel like they needed to provide any examples of their model being useful or providing any insights. So my reaction is to ignore it until they do the work of showing why we should care.
This is a typical crank website that tries to pass off metaphysics as physics.
>The researchers are David Deutsch, Chiara Marletto, and collaborators in Oxford Physics, Wolfson College, ISI Turin and CQT Singapore.
Great, now Oxford is running crank websites...