Ben Jones: Do you mean that realist view of QM is that QM is a map of the territory, rather than a map of a different map? I wouldn’t say that the first entailed what Eliezer said, “the quantum world is really out there”.
It is the best map we have at the moment, but we should always strive to make better maps that make QM as illusory as classical mechanics.
I’d also question whether any attempted interpretation is consistent with occams razor, unless you are trying to explain something new of course. Not that I would mind myself, interpretations might leads us to the places where we can perform experiments to determine whether they are useful or not.
Ben Jones: Do you mean that realist view of QM is that QM is a map of the territory, rather than a map of a different map? I wouldn’t say that the first entailed what Eliezer said, “the quantum world is really out there”.
It is the best map we have at the moment, but we should always strive to make better maps that make QM as illusory as classical mechanics.
I’d also question whether any attempted interpretation is consistent with occams razor, unless you are trying to explain something new of course. Not that I would mind myself, interpretations might leads us to the places where we can perform experiments to determine whether they are useful or not.