It may just be that you haven’t been exposed to a similarly compelling exposition of the other options (parable here). The main point of my article (which is now complete) is that the various rival interpretations have hardly even reached the status of exact theories; and then they still need to be put into commensurable forms, and the rest of the resulting theory-space charted. Only then can we avoid starting-point bias and carry out these Occam-like reasonings.
Your article still looks incomplete to me; there is quite a bit Eliezer_Yudkowsky presented to justify MWI that doesn’t appear to be addressed here. I’m not just comparing lengths of what each of you wrote; there is quite a bit of inferential distance he worked through and you would have to cast strong doubt on at least one of those steps to have a case.
Eliezer’s expository series doesn’t really engage with the other interpretations (see my reply to cousin_it). It is an enthusiastic exposition of a particular approach, but it is nothing like a serious examination of how it stacks up in comparison with the other options.
It may just be that you haven’t been exposed to a similarly compelling exposition of the other options (parable here). The main point of my article (which is now complete) is that the various rival interpretations have hardly even reached the status of exact theories; and then they still need to be put into commensurable forms, and the rest of the resulting theory-space charted. Only then can we avoid starting-point bias and carry out these Occam-like reasonings.
Your article still looks incomplete to me; there is quite a bit Eliezer_Yudkowsky presented to justify MWI that doesn’t appear to be addressed here. I’m not just comparing lengths of what each of you wrote; there is quite a bit of inferential distance he worked through and you would have to cast strong doubt on at least one of those steps to have a case.
Eliezer’s expository series doesn’t really engage with the other interpretations (see my reply to cousin_it). It is an enthusiastic exposition of a particular approach, but it is nothing like a serious examination of how it stacks up in comparison with the other options.