EHeller comments on Many Worlds, One Best Guess - Less Wrong

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Comment author: EHeller 23 September 2013 03:41:50AM 0 points [-]

Max Tegmark has paraphrased this idea nicely with the quip "many words or many worlds"

Sure, but why is the information content of the current state of the universe something that we would want to minimize? In both many-worlds and alternatives, the complexity of the ALGORITHM is roughly the same.