Two days ago Scott Aaronson have commented on this topic. At this moment, his answer has as many upvotes as the Ron Mainmon’s one (former most upvoted one).
Scott enjoyed the sequence and thinks that it is “exactly what you should and must do if your goal is to explain QM to an audience of non-physicists”. However, he gives two criticisms of Yudkowsky, both connected to the Eliezer’s claim that MWI vs CI debate is completely one-sided.
Since what Scott Aaronson is saying in point 2 sounds very interesting to me, would someone be so nice and elaborate on the following sentence (so that I don’t have to wait until I am able to reduce the inferential distance :-):
If I didn’t know that in real life, people pretty much never encounter pure states, but only more general objects that (to paraphrase Jaynes) scramble together “subjective” probabilities and “objective” amplitudes into a single omelette, the view that quantum states are “states of knowledge” that “live in the mind, not in the world” would probably also strike me as meaningless nonsense.
Two days ago Scott Aaronson have commented on this topic. At this moment, his answer has as many upvotes as the Ron Mainmon’s one (former most upvoted one).
Scott enjoyed the sequence and thinks that it is “exactly what you should and must do if your goal is to explain QM to an audience of non-physicists”. However, he gives two criticisms of Yudkowsky, both connected to the Eliezer’s claim that MWI vs CI debate is completely one-sided.
Where is Scott’s comment?
Here
Since what Scott Aaronson is saying in point 2 sounds very interesting to me, would someone be so nice and elaborate on the following sentence (so that I don’t have to wait until I am able to reduce the inferential distance :-):
I’ve been looking everywhere to an answer to this question. Can someone, anyone with deep knowledge of QM and who accepts MWI please try to answer it?
And, as usual for Scott, he nailed it, too