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pragmatist comments on Problems of the Deutsch-Wallace version of Many Worlds - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 16 December 2011 06:55AM

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Comment author: pragmatist 16 December 2011 02:38:55PM 1 point [-]

Mitchell, in your previous post you suggested that the natural way to get probabilities in MWI is just by looking at relative frequencies of branches. Obviously if the representation theorem is correct, this strategy must be incompatible with some of the assumptions. The relevant assumptions here are (5) and (7).

Wallace gives a good example illustrating why the counting rule violates (5) and (7) on page 28 of the paper I linked above.