Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox
Oka@sopuli.xyz 22 hours agoI didnt read the article because in familiar with the theory already. I believe the universe is determinate, so every choice is predetermined. Therefore, the “predictor” can calculate your exact choice if it knows all variables of the universe. If it doesnt, it can calculate a likelihood between 99.9 repeating and 50.0 repeating, based on all the variables it does know.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
That has been experimentally proven false and outside of all mainstream science.
While you can have a supernatural belief in a clockwork universe, the premise is a supercomputer makes the prediction, not God.
Oka@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
Then the experiments may be flawed. We dont know what we dont know, but we have calculated a lot of “supernatural” phenomenon like gravity, physics, and light, to be computable mathematical formulae. Is it unthinkable to believe that everything can be computation then, if we were aware of every variable involved?
There are a near infinite number of variables involved, but if we knew every variable, we could solve it.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That’s the same excuse flat Earthers make. Yes every single observation made over the past 100 years could have been wrong and tomorrow we find out that all of quantum mechanics is wrong.
Take a single electron. You can’t define it’s position and motion (momentum) simultaneously. It is fundamentally unsolvable. There aren’t even hidden variables that we are unaware of. Bell’s inequality has been experimentally proven many times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem
Oka@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Ok, so electrons act weird, that’s strong evidence that we still havent completely figured them out. They defy our expectations based on what we know. There’s the possibility that there’s something else at play that we don’t know, and maybe cannot fathom. We don’t know what we don’t know.