Christian Thom said:
After some search and the viewing of a very good recent video from S. Hossenfelder, I think it is close to the super-determinism, as it exploits the same loophole of Bell's theorem : the statistical independence.
I'm not sure what to think about her video. She sort of ignored issue that most people I've seen have presented as the deal breaker in favoring super-determinism. According to others, in order for super-determinism to be plausible, the past or initial conditions of the universe would have to be very very "special", so as to be in just the right way that we happen to see the correlations we do. I'm careful not to validate these concerns, because I haven't studied it closely enough. I may be one of the people she talks about who doesn't know what they're talking about.
There is apparently a similar issue with MWI, in that in some of the less common world lines, people will observe universes that look highly "special", in various weird ways, or look like some seriously spooky action at a distance was happening.
Sabine is hoping that in the future, large scale data analysis, using AI, and experiments of events in the non-chaotic regime, will make it look obvious that our reality is super-deterministic. But if that happens, couldn't we also just be equally a very very special world in a MWI reality at that point?
A truly randomly generated number will have equally likely outcomes, each time a new one is generated. Suppose a uniform random number generator generates numbers between 1 and 10^100^100^100. It's theoretically possible that you could generate the same number 10^100 times in a row, or even indefinitely. In fact that result is just as likely as any other sequences of numbers. It's just not typical in the sense that most possible sequences will look more "random" (or more typical).
In fact, we don't need MWI, or super-determinism, or entanglement at all right? We can just have true randomness, and be really really lucky? In any case all of these possibilities (being really lucky rolling the dice, a very very special and precisely and elaborately arranged domino arrangement, or we're a special highly atypical world in a MWI universe) seem unappealing for similar reasons. We usually rely on the assumption that if QM is giving us randomness, it will look like "randomness", rather than we just might get super lucky. Or we assume that even if MWI is correct, that the world line we've experienced thus far is fairly typical.
This said, maybe the "fine tuning" problem in QM foundations isn't what people make it out to be. Maybe the narrowest sense in which the independence needs to be violated need not be "
"special" in the sense people make out it be?