You seem to dislike the QM sequence on LW. Besides those links (they’re quite short), is there anything else that you’d recommend to read instead of the QM sequence that would be as easy to understand for a layman and would offer significant insight on MWI position? In short, is there anything that would offer the same utility that the QM sequence offers, but in a better manner?
is there anything that would offer the same utility that the QM sequence offers, but in a better manner?
Well, Deutsch’s The Beginning of Infinity is consistently praised by practicing physicists and quantum information researchers, and it advocates MWI quite forcefully. There is a lot of speculative stuff there which is best read critically, just like in his first book, The Fabric of Reality, so it is a good exercise in recognizing when you are being fed a teacher’s password.
I’ve seen FAQs, and even linked one that looked good, but I cannot find that post with the search function, and I don’t want to go back a year or so and find it manually. That said, don’t expect many good ones.
1) QM is, believe it or not, difficult (big surprise, right?)
2) what needs to be said really depends on the directions your thoughts bend when being exposed to it—covering every blind alley that could screw someone up would slow everyone down to a crawl, unless you go very formally, and then see point 1 even more so.
You seem to dislike the QM sequence on LW. Besides those links (they’re quite short), is there anything else that you’d recommend to read instead of the QM sequence that would be as easy to understand for a layman and would offer significant insight on MWI position? In short, is there anything that would offer the same utility that the QM sequence offers, but in a better manner?
Actually, there is a subsequence which is pretty good: {An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics}(http://lesswrong.com/lw/r6/an_intuitive_explanation_of_quantum_mechanics/).
Well, Deutsch’s The Beginning of Infinity is consistently praised by practicing physicists and quantum information researchers, and it advocates MWI quite forcefully. There is a lot of speculative stuff there which is best read critically, just like in his first book, The Fabric of Reality, so it is a good exercise in recognizing when you are being fed a teacher’s password.
I’ve seen FAQs, and even linked one that looked good, but I cannot find that post with the search function, and I don’t want to go back a year or so and find it manually. That said, don’t expect many good ones.
1) QM is, believe it or not, difficult (big surprise, right?)
2) what needs to be said really depends on the directions your thoughts bend when being exposed to it—covering every blind alley that could screw someone up would slow everyone down to a crawl, unless you go very formally, and then see point 1 even more so.