Personally, I’m deferring making a decision about many-worlds until such time as I will have a need to make a decision about it (probably never), because it would take a large time investment.
EY’s bringing it up repeatedly as a rationality test worries me a teeny bit. Not because I disagree with him about the particulars, but because bringing up one issue repeatedly into conversations where it seems tangential is a key indicator of schizophrenia, or at least impending crankism. I worry about that with extremely high-g people, particularly when they’re around the age of 30.
It’s common for very high-g people to have a few issues that they are immovable on. Isaac Asimov would not fly on airplanes. I know one very-high-g and one probably-high g person who insist on using text-only web browsers. I know one high-g person who’s a devout Mormon, one who doesn’t believe in evolution, one who refuses to take his benefits from the government or work for a corporation, and one who believes the Jews have always secretly been in control of Russia. I don’t know how to determine whether EY’s position on multi-worlds is rational, or a g-induced fixation.
Personally, I’m deferring making a decision about many-worlds until such time as I will have a need to make a decision about it (probably never), because it would take a large time investment.
EY’s bringing it up repeatedly as a rationality test worries me a teeny bit. Not because I disagree with him about the particulars, but because bringing up one issue repeatedly into conversations where it seems tangential is a key indicator of schizophrenia, or at least impending crankism. I worry about that with extremely high-g people, particularly when they’re around the age of 30.
It’s common for very high-g people to have a few issues that they are immovable on. Isaac Asimov would not fly on airplanes. I know one very-high-g and one probably-high g person who insist on using text-only web browsers. I know one high-g person who’s a devout Mormon, one who doesn’t believe in evolution, one who refuses to take his benefits from the government or work for a corporation, and one who believes the Jews have always secretly been in control of Russia. I don’t know how to determine whether EY’s position on multi-worlds is rational, or a g-induced fixation.