saturn comments on Open Thread: October 2009 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: gwern 01 October 2009 12:49PM

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Comment author: saturn 01 October 2009 07:11:04PM 0 points [-]

It's true that MWI doesn't absolutely rule out the possibility that your next words might be in another language, but neither does any other QM interpretation. They all predict just the amount of wackiness that we see.

Comment author: zaph 01 October 2009 07:28:46PM 0 points [-]

The other interpretations allow for the possibility, but MWI seems to argue for it to definitely occur, in some universe branch.

I think it's the "wacky but not TOO wacky" world that I find pretty fascinating in QM. I just haven't seen a description that just seemed to nail it for me. Obviously, YMMV.