Lumifer comments on [LINK] The Wrong Objections to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Lumifer 19 Feb 2015 21:08 UTC
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Not only it assumes independence, it also assumes that the two competing theories have exactly the same postulates except for a single extra one. That is typically not how things work in real life.
- dxu 22 Feb 2015 19:45 UTC
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  it also assumes that the two competing theories have exactly the same postulates
  
  Er, no it doesn’t. Where are you getting this?
  - Lumifer 23 Feb 2015 18:17 UTC
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    Where are you getting this?
    
    From here:
    
    I like to think of it as an extension of the conjunction fallacy; the probability of A and B being true can’t be higher than the probability of either A or B; adding new conditions can only make the probability stay the same or go down.