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MWI people keep making these strong claims and ignoring the very credible criticism of them. https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-many-worlds-interpretation-

• ZeroGravitas 6y ago
  That's a very philosophical rather than physics-based rebuttal. He appears to be saying it can't be true because it would make life/and or the concept of self meaningless. Whereas I would say that a theory that suggests we are meaningless temporary blips in an infinite universe is probably a much greater indication that it is true than otherwise.
  • fsh 6y ago
    Most interpretations of QM make identical predictions for the outcome of any possible experiment. This makes the field fundamentally philosophical rather than scientific.
• AgentME 6y ago
  I previously found this article and wrote a bunch of notes about it that I never got around to posting before. It was too long to be an HN comment so I've just cleaned it up and posted it here: https://macil.tech/2021/05/09/bad-mwi-criticism/ https://macil.tech/2021/05/09/bad-mwi-criticism/. I'm not a big fan of the article, it mostly just defines self in a nonsense way and then treats it as a contradiction with MWI despite also laying out more sensible answers.