[extropy-chat] Is Many Worlds testable?

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Damien Broderick wrote:
> 
> That is, the measurement paradox *started* the enquiry, but Everett 
> looked for a solution that applied generally to a wholly quantum 
> world. That, it seems to me, is why decoherence treats relevant 
> interactions as de facto "measurements". But maybe that's as silly as 
> saying the sun rises when we mean the earth dips toward it.

*Yes.*

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence