This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for the week of June 11th. It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:
- Established a useful new habit
- Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief
- Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations
- Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior
- Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something
- Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life
- Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you
- Tried doing any of the above and failed
Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.
Thanks to everyone who contributes!
(Previously: 5/14/12, 5/21/12, 5/28/12, 6/4/12)
The other day Patrick mentioned to me on #lesswrong that one of the multiverses Briane Greene talks in his book Hidden Reality... is of the MWI type. So I looked through the book, and here is the relevant passage:
Now, this makes me update more toward the statement "MWI does not require any extra assumptions beyond the Schroedinger equation", though not all the way there, because it postulates "infinitely many identical copies of the system", which is still a separate postulate. There is a further problem with this. Brian Greene again, now for a two-state system:
This is a standard problem in MWI, but still, there are some hints that MWI may be a part of the next step in the quantum theory, when it finally happens.
Were some characters dropped in the block quotes? It looks like some variable names went missing.