taw comments on Why Many-Worlds Is Not The Rationally Favored Interpretation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simpleton 29 September 2009 04:17:29PM 6 points [-]

MWI completely fails if any such non-linearities are present, while other theories can handle them. [...] It can collapse with one experiment, and I'm not betting against such experiment happening in my lifetime at odds higher than 10:1.

So you're saying MWI tells us what to anticipate more specifically (and therefore makes itself more falsifiable) than the alternatives, and that's a point against it?

Comment author: taw 01 October 2009 01:12:03AM 0 points [-]

It's the point against certainty about MWI, not against MWI.

If we go down to 200th decimal place and find perfect linearity, it would be weak evidence for MWI (because other interpretations are fairly agnostic about it).