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kremlin comments on How accurate is the quantum physics sequence? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: kremlin 02 September 2013 06:49:57PM 1 point [-]

But collapse interpretations require additional non-local algorithms, which to me seem to be, by necessity, incredibly complicated

Comment author: shminux 02 September 2013 07:46:48PM -1 points [-]

But collapse interpretations require additional non-local algorithms

Not for computations, they do not. If you try to write a code simulating a QM system, end up writing unitary evolution on top of the elliptic time-independent SE (H psi = E psi) to describe the initial state. If you want to calculate probabilities, such as the pattern on the screen from the double-slit experiment, you apply the Born rule. And computational complexity is the only thing thing that matters for Occam's razor.