MichaelVassar comments on The Contrarian Status Catch-22 - Less Wrong
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But all but the most fundamental (e.g. particle masses) asymmetry/"randomness" in the world comes from quantum events, no? Which would imply that every physically possible world (up to the size of the universe, if it's finite) exists in the wavefunction under a pretty broad definition of "physically possible", including Nazi victories and simulations of all physically impossible but logically possible worlds.
I don't think that this is certain at all. Also, our intuitions of what counts as logically possible are terribly terribly unreliable.