How can every physicist become a Bohmian

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I view Bohmian as the initial "intuitive" interpretation.
You extend the pointer all the way to the macroscopic world:
The essential part of any apparatus is the thing which shows us the final result of measurement. In a realistic digital apparatus it can be some display with digits.
I haven't read up on Bohemian lately (as it the last decade), but I don't think I have heard of the pilot extended that far before. But, I do think it is necessary - because I believe it is needed to preserve a form of determinism.

In situations like Bell Inequality testing, I have described the "random" selection of the measured spin state as a way of keeping faster-than-light coordination from permitting faster-that-light communication. But "random" suggests that there is a coin external to the universe that is flipped to determine the spin state. This has the consequence of pumping 1 more bit of information into the universe every time Bell measurement is made - a form of multiverse where location must be specified with X, Y, Z, T, and Wt's (all the which-way selections to occurred up until that "T").
If we wish to conserve information, we can't do multiverse and we can't have external coin flips. The spin direction needs to be determined from available information. Since this pointer is a function of a non-local collection of information, it does not appear to me that it is limited in scope to time-span or distance. It could be determined by potential far future developments as readily as by any other space-like events.

Oh yeah, you have a misspelling ("fuction") after equation 33.