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Branching comes from decoherence where quantum entanglements spread to the environment so the coherence of the entangled environment is suppressed and we only observe what looks like a classical world unless we isolate systems to see their coherence. MWI is just saying that entanglement does not stop at measurement, and that decoherence spreads it to the universe.

> If knowing the answer is not valuable then asking the question wasn’t valuable to begin with.

Let's say it's possible to know an alien civilization exists 100 million light years away from their waste heat. But that's all we know and it's unlikely we'll ever interact with them.

Was the question of whether we're alone still "valuable"? Wouldn't a lot of philosophy and even some physics fail to meet your definition of valuable?

MWI just takes the math as saying the entire world is entangled in a massive superposition (the universal wave equation), but decoherence means there are different branches in that superposition that look classical to any observers in those branches, because coherence has been suppressed by all the environmental entaglements.

I don't know what that has to do with religion or nonsense. Everett and physicists, mathematicians and philosophers since then of a like mind thought the math applied to the entire universe, and the was no classical cutoff where the wave function "collapsed" upon a measurement. Everett was providing a deterministic interpretation competing with the Copenhagen one, which he thought was insufficient.

It has mathematical and philosophical content. People can be convinced for reasons other than empirical without it being emotional. Sean Carroll makes logical arguments for why he's convinced MWI is correct.

Decoherence only hides entanglement by having the entire world go into a complex superposition. It's entirely compatible with MWI. Decoherence does not resolve the measurement problem on its own. It's not a separate interpretation. It only provides us a mathematical reason for why the world appears classical.

He and Trump both, so hard to pick who's lying between them.

Tell that to ICE.

What would Russia do about it? They're not going to start a nuclear war and can't fight a conventional one against NATO given the stalemate in Ukraine.

This is the place where people would rather see machine capabilities expand rather than humans.

That's quite the leap. Surely there is some ground between free market liberalism and the worst examples of state communism. For that matter, it's unclear why Rand and liberalism are being mixed together, as plenty of liberals don't agree with Rand's philosophy.

You just got to upload your mind to the cloud brah. Then you can live rent free in the tech bros data centers.

In what way?

Their votes will count the same as yours.

Does it outperform Erlang/OTP?

Which is all that should matter. Nobody should be forced to use LLMs if they can do good work without them.