The claim I’m making is that Eliezer’s acting as if MWI was proven beyond any possibility of doubt, just as non-existence of the Christian god, is not justified.
MWI is a decent interpretation, but preference for it is based mostly on different intuitions on what counts as mathematical simplicity (as data is agnostic between interpretations now), and it might get invalidated in a single experiment—which is not that terribly unlikely to happen, given past performance of our physical theories.
Sure, it’s just that taw and simpleton both seemed to be making stronger claims than that.
The claim I’m making is that Eliezer’s acting as if MWI was proven beyond any possibility of doubt, just as non-existence of the Christian god, is not justified.
MWI is a decent interpretation, but preference for it is based mostly on different intuitions on what counts as mathematical simplicity (as data is agnostic between interpretations now), and it might get invalidated in a single experiment—which is not that terribly unlikely to happen, given past performance of our physical theories.