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

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Comment author: EHeller 13 February 2013 02:04:12AM 0 points [-]

After applying "shut up and calculate" to RQM the results are identical to the results of applying "shut up and calculate" to MWI,

This isn't actually correct- there is not a "shut-up-and-calculate" version of many world's- without the born probabilities you can't calculate anything. Maybe someday Deutsch,Wallace or some other enterprising many worlds advocate will show us a way to do calculations without the measurement postulate. That hasn't happened yet, so many worlds does not let us calculate. As far as I know, this inability to calculate is the primary reason physicists reject it.

Comment author: EHeller 13 February 2013 02:44:03AM 1 point [-]

I'm very curious as to why I'm being downvoted for expressing this sentiment, if any down voter cares to explain, I'd be much obliged.