TheAncientGeek comments on Quantum Bayesianism - Less Wrong

0 Post author: morganism 08 October 2016 11:27PM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 13 October 2016 02:59:54PM 0 points [-]

In the Sequence, Eliezer made a strong case for the realist interpretation of QM (neo-Everettian many worlds), based on decoherence and Occam's razor.

It's tendentious to call MWI the only realistic interpretation.

EY makes a case against CI, which in most circumstances would be a case against anti-realism. However his version of CI is actually OR, another realistic theory. So he never makes a case for realism against irrealism.

Comment author: MrMind 14 October 2016 09:11:09AM *  0 points [-]

As far as I know, neoEverett is the smallest realist interpretation: Eliezer argued not only against anti-realism, but also in favor of the smallest theory that falls out of the formalism.