whowhowho comments on If Many-Worlds Had Come First - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whowhowho 13 February 2013 12:19:52AM *  1 point [-]

"shut up and calculate" works just fine

It doesn't work "fine", or at all, as an interpretation. It's silent as to what it means.

There is no agreement among the experts about the ontology of QM (b

There are slowly emerging themes, such as the uselessness of trying to recover classical physics at the fundamental level, and the importance of decoherence.

Simply "trusting the SE" gives you nothing useful, as far as the measurement is concerned.

I don't see what you mean by that. An interpretation that says "trust the SE" (I suppose you mean "reify the evolution of the WF according to the SE") won't give you anything results-wise, because its an interpretation

Comment author: shminux 13 February 2013 12:26:44AM 0 points [-]

It doesn't work "fine", or at all, as an interpretation.

Uh, no. It's not an interpretation (i.e. "explanation"), it's an explicit refusal to interpret the laws.

Anyway, time to disengage, we are not converging.