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I have to be brutally honest here and say that I'm not inclined to spend much time understanding in detail a 16 page paper from someone who has no recognisable
by n4r9 7y ago
I have to be brutally honest here and say that I'm not inclined to spend much time understanding in detail a 16 page paper from someone who has no recognisable affiliation and a single arxiv submission that doesn't seem to have garnered much attention. Having skimmed it and what you've written, I'm quite confused about how the ontology differs from Many Worlds or what it means for "weights" to "cross in size". I think the author concedes some of the difficult in positing a "dominant reality" when they say
> Undetectable to the observer, different alternate realities can fight for becoming the dominant one, at least over a short period of time. This effect appears to be highly unsettling and not really greatly preferable to the world-splitting n the Everett interpretation
- crdrost 7y agoI mean I suppose it’s up to you whether you “recognize” the Universität Konstanz, but it’s a rather large place. Tell himself is indeed not working in the field anymore—this preprint was submitted to at least one journal as I understand but was not accepted before the grant was up or so and he could no longer keep pushing for publication; instead he went into acoustic signal processing with a friend, and they both started a company called SoundTheory now. Something about trying to maximize the information “punch” of music to your brain makes it sound better or reduces background noise or something. The paper is still interesting on its own merits though. I mean, it’s interesting to me; of course your mileage may vary.