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Douglas_Knight 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: Douglas_Knight 17 December 2011 03:25:25PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, Robin Hanson does, but his theory is a collapse theory so don't hold it against MWI.

ETA: actually, no, I do not agree that Robin Hanson does counting.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 18 December 2011 03:52:47AM 0 points [-]

If I google "mangled worlds", I am told: "Describes a variation on the many worlds interpretation in which the Born probability rule can be derived via finite world counting."

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 18 December 2011 04:40:22AM *  0 points [-]

I reached the opposite conclusion from that page.