EHeller comments on Many Worlds, One Best Guess - Less Wrong
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Mitchell,
there is another argument speaking for many-worlds (indeed, even for all possible worlds - which raises new interesting questions of what is possible of course - certainly not everything that is imaginable): that to specify one universe with many random events requires lots of information, while if _everything_ exists the information content is zero - which fits nicely with ex nihilo nihil fit :-)
Structure and concreteness only emerges from the inside view, which gives the picture of a single world. Max Tegmark has paraphrased this idea nicely with the quip "many words or many worlds" (words standing for high information content).
Max's paper is quite illuminating: Tegmark, Max. 2007. The Mathematical Universe http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646
So we could say that there a good metaphysical reasons for preferring MWI to GRW or Bohm.
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.