RobbBB comments on Privileging the Hypothesis - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 September 2009 12:40AM

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Comment author: RobbBB 05 March 2013 05:40:54AM *  1 point [-]

If that's your definition, then it's an empirical question whether a given model is an interpretation, because it's often contingent and difficult-to-demonstrate that a given ontology is necessarily 'invisible', as opposed to 'potentially-testable-but-as-yet-untested'. Impossibility proofs about future scientific experiments are no easy task. So we can only speculate about whether Many Worlds, Bohmian Mechanics, Collapse theories, etc. are 'interpretations' in your sense.

(And by 'invisible' I gather you mean 'empirically equivalent to a certain set of rivals' -- so whether something's an interpretation is always relative to other models, the real predicate is interpretation-compared-to-x.)