Sniffnoy comments on On Branching vs Probability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 23 March 2011 03:30:24AM 0 points [-]

For what it's worth, my current way of thinking is that a quantum theory is neither "deterministic" nor "probabilistic" but just "quantum".

Is it possible to predict the final state given only the initial state? If so, it's deterministic. If not, it's probabilistic.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 24 March 2011 01:07:08AM 1 point [-]

I would think "probabliistic" should be reserved for things that are actually governed by probabilities. As you know, amplitudes don't really work like probabilities; if they did, the MWI hypothesis would be unneeded.