I just can’t ignore this.
If you take a minute to actually look at the talk section of that wikipedia page you will see those polls being thorn to pieces.
David Deutsch himself has stated that less than 10% of the people doing quantum fundamentals believe in MWI and then within that minority there are a lot of diverging views.
So this is still not by any means a “majority interpretation”.
As Mitchell_Porter has pointed out Gell-Mann certainly do not believe in MWI. Nor do Steven Weinberg, he denounced his ‘faith’ in it in a paper last year. Feynman certainly did never talk about it, which to me is more than enough indication that he did not endorse it.
Hawking is a bit harder, he is on record seemingly being pro and con it, so I guess he is a fence sitter.
But more importantly is the fact that none of the proponents agree on what MWI they support. (This includes you Eliezer)
Zurek is another fence sitter, partly pro-some-sort-of-MWI, partly pro-It-from-Bit. Also his way of getting the Born Rule in MWI is quite a bit different. From what I understand, only the worlds that are “persistent” are actualized.
This reminds me of Robin Hanson’s mangled worlds where only some worlds are real and the rest gets “cancelled” out somehow. Yet they are completley different ways of looking at MWI.
Then you got David Deutsch’s fungible worlds which is slightly different from David Wallace’s worlds.
Tegmark got his own views etc.
There seems to be no single MWI and there has been no answer to the Born Rule.
So I want to know why you keep on talking about it as it is a slam dunk?
I just can’t ignore this. If you take a minute to actually look at the talk section of that wikipedia page you will see those polls being thorn to pieces.
David Deutsch himself has stated that less than 10% of the people doing quantum fundamentals believe in MWI and then within that minority there are a lot of diverging views. So this is still not by any means a “majority interpretation”.
As Mitchell_Porter has pointed out Gell-Mann certainly do not believe in MWI. Nor do Steven Weinberg, he denounced his ‘faith’ in it in a paper last year. Feynman certainly did never talk about it, which to me is more than enough indication that he did not endorse it. Hawking is a bit harder, he is on record seemingly being pro and con it, so I guess he is a fence sitter.
But more importantly is the fact that none of the proponents agree on what MWI they support. (This includes you Eliezer)
Zurek is another fence sitter, partly pro-some-sort-of-MWI, partly pro-It-from-Bit. Also his way of getting the Born Rule in MWI is quite a bit different. From what I understand, only the worlds that are “persistent” are actualized. This reminds me of Robin Hanson’s mangled worlds where only some worlds are real and the rest gets “cancelled” out somehow. Yet they are completley different ways of looking at MWI. Then you got David Deutsch’s fungible worlds which is slightly different from David Wallace’s worlds. Tegmark got his own views etc.
There seems to be no single MWI and there has been no answer to the Born Rule.
So I want to know why you keep on talking about it as it is a slam dunk?
Good question.