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The MWI gives an illusion of predictability ("Everything possible happens! We just don't see it because nearly all of it happens somewhere else to some other 'us'!"). Unfortunately, it can no more answer the question of which outcome an experiment will measure in "this world" than any other interpretation.
Even more unfortunately, and at a risk of a massive downvote, I hate to say it, but the MWI has become an official LW religion:
proclaimed to be true true by the founder: check
provides comfort to the masses: check
sets the group apart from others: check
impossible to falsify: check
makes one feel superior because of "deeper understanding of the world": check
Quantum Mechanics is falsifiable; MWI vs Copenhagen is mathematically equivalent. I'd call it a preference rather than a religion.
[edit] Poster below states that they're not mathematically equivalent. I think a better way of saying it is "MWI is related to Copenhagen so that observable evidence for or against one is always and exactly observable evidence for or against the other as well. "
Unfortunately, it is not treated as a preference. People use magic words like Occam's razor, Solomonoff induction and Kolmogorov complexity to justify why the MWI is better, without any attempt to quantify it. Well, I did make an attempt to quantify the complexity in one of my comments. Predictably, at least in the hindsight, there was little interest in discussing the validity or the consequences of this approach.