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rcxdude • yesterday at 6:51 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

They're also generally regarded as weirder than the problem they are trying to solve.


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antonvs • yesterday at 7:23 PM

Intuitive notions of “weird” aren’t necessarily a good guide here. We already know time doesn’t behave the way we intuitively imagine, because of relativity: there can’t be universal agreement on what is past, present, or future. Once you’ve accepted that, retrocausality seems much less strange.

Similarly, superdeterminism is simply the application of the determinism that was believed to apply to physics before QM, to QM itself. In a way, one might have expected it to be the default interpretation.

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