How many universes "branch off" from a "quantum event", and in how many of them is the cat dead vs alive, and what about non-50/50 scenarios, and please answer so that a physics dummy can maybe kind of understand?
(Is it just 1 with the live cat and 1 with the dead one?)
Point specifically to that which is "derogatory" in the initial post. I don't participate in LW to get upvoted, anyway, since that is merely a marker of groupthink (or correlates in assigning yay or boo ascriptions to a particular post for mere classical conditioning to take place). I didn't use any jargon except the term "omniverse" which anyone equipped with Google could look up themselves. I suppose when writing comments on LW, in special cases (as in a technical topic), one must hold the hand of the reader, lest they become enraged by subtleties and novel syntactical arrangements of words.
The part where you say "it is absurd to suppose" when it isn't made clear in plain English what it is that is absurd. However I mostly included the statement about derogatory comments in reference to your other comments.
Perhaps a better term than "technical jargon" would be "convoluted grammar." I pointed out specific examples of phrasing I found unpleasant to read in my original reply.
Also someone else may have pointed this out but the general policy on lesswrong is not to vote on agree/disagree but on this comment was worth... (read more)