XiXiDu comments on Solve Psy-Kosh's non-anthropic problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mwengler 23 December 2010 07:45:08PM 3 points [-]

I am new to this board and come in with a "prior" of rejecting MWI beyond the tiniest amount on the basis of, among other things, conservation of energy and mass. (Where do these constantly forming new worlds come from?) MWI seems more like a mapmakers mistake than a description of the territory, which manifestly has only one universe in it every time I look.

I was inviting you to show me with links or description whatever you find most compelling, if you could be bothered to. I am reading main sequence stuff and this is one of the more interesting puzzles among Less Wrong's idiosyncratic consensi.

Comment author: XiXiDu 23 December 2010 08:23:22PM *  1 point [-]

Here a subsequent discussion about some experimental test(s) of MWI. Also here a video dicussion between Scott Aaronson and Yudkowsky (starting at 38:11). More links on topic can be found here.

ETA Sorry, I wanted to reply to another of your comments, wrong tab. Anyway.