EHeller comments on Privileging the Hypothesis - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 March 2013 07:53:02AM *  2 points [-]

You use evidence AGAINST a collapse as evidence FOR many worlds, which is nonsense.

That actually isn't nonsense, even if (or rather, even though) there are not only two hypotheses. Given that collapse outright excludes many worlds, evidence against collapse is evidence in favor of many worlds. It is evidence that merely becomes weaker the more additional probability mass there is for the additional hypotheses.

Comment author: EHeller 05 March 2013 07:57:41AM 2 points [-]

I retract the overly-strong word "non-sense", I'm not sure how to markup a strike out so I merely edited the above post.