bringing QM into this is not helping. All these types of questions are completely generic QM questions and ultimately they come down to measure ||Psi>|²
It’s just… having a proof is supposed to boost our confidence that the conclusion is correct...
if the proof relies on assumptions which are already quite far from the majority opinion about our actual reality (and are probably going to deviate further, as AIs will be better physicists and engineers than us and will leverage the strangeness of our physics much further than we do), then what’s the point of that “proof”?
how does having this kind of “proof” increase our confidence in what seems informally correct for a single branch reality (and rather uncertain in a presumed multiverse, but we don’t even know if we are in a multiverse, so bringing a multiverse in might, indeed, be one of the possible objections to the statement, but I don’t know if one wants to pursue this line of discourse, because it is much more complicated than what we are doing here so far)?
(as an intellectual exercise, a proof like that is still of interest, even under the unrealistic assumption that we live in a computable reality, I would not argue with that; it’s still interesting)
bringing QM into this is not helping. All these types of questions are completely generic QM questions and ultimately they come down to measure ||Psi>|²
It’s just… having a proof is supposed to boost our confidence that the conclusion is correct...
if the proof relies on assumptions which are already quite far from the majority opinion about our actual reality (and are probably going to deviate further, as AIs will be better physicists and engineers than us and will leverage the strangeness of our physics much further than we do), then what’s the point of that “proof”?
how does having this kind of “proof” increase our confidence in what seems informally correct for a single branch reality (and rather uncertain in a presumed multiverse, but we don’t even know if we are in a multiverse, so bringing a multiverse in might, indeed, be one of the possible objections to the statement, but I don’t know if one wants to pursue this line of discourse, because it is much more complicated than what we are doing here so far)?
(as an intellectual exercise, a proof like that is still of interest, even under the unrealistic assumption that we live in a computable reality, I would not argue with that; it’s still interesting)