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by isaacg 1427 days ago
There is something to that - there's a concept called "Quantum Nonlocality", which says that an accurate description of an entangled quantum system must be nonlocal - to predict what will happen, we need to look at the whole system at once.

But nonlocality is different from the capacity for communication. To make accurate predictions about the measurements, one would need information from the earth and from mars. However, the results of the measurements cannot be used to transmit information.

These two concepts - what is necessary for prediction and what the results can accomplish - often line up in the classical world, but in the quantum world they are quite distinct. So your intuition has merit, but it reveals quantum nonlocality, not quantum superluminal communication.