Douglas_Knight comments on Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Aaronson talk about AI and Many-worlds - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 18 August 2009 06:13:40PM 3 points [-]

If many different versions of you existing bothers you, does Schroedinger's cat bother you?

The extent to which MWI is a stronger claim than "no collapse," it's purely interpretative. It certainly doesn't posit any "splitting" beyond vanilla QM. Questions about conservation of energy suggest that you don't get this.