And the comments are predictably horrible. Sigh.
This one seems interesting:
You could say, “The formalism of QR says that macroscopic systems behave as if there were many worlds.” Or you could say, “The formalism of QR says that macroscopic systems behave as if there were many worlds — and there really are” How is the second an improvement over the first? What does the claim that a hypothesis is “true” add to the claim that it is predictively successful, aesthetically satisfying and productive of new insights?
Seems smart. But then again, why not apply it to all our knowledge? For example, you should ...
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