Perplexed comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 25 August 2010 09:25:13PM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure it matters to the analysis. Whether we have a Tegmark multiverse, or Everett MWI with some decisions depending on quantum randomness and others classically determined, or whether the multiple worlds are purely subjective fictions created to have a model of Bayesianism; regardless of what you think is a possible reduction of "possibly"; it is still the case that you have to live in the reality which you helped to create by way of your past actions.

Comment author: h-H 26 August 2010 04:31:48AM 0 points [-]

agreed, it's not like scientific analysis requires the laws of physics to have no quantum randomness source etc, rather it is satisfied with finding the logical necessities between what is used to describe the observable universe.