You’re quite right. I saved it and then logged out. Or that’s what I thought I was doing. And I came back just now intending to respond to Eliezer’s essay with a comment rather than a whole new article. I guess I’ll make the counterargument here after all.
You actually have to select the “draft” option from the dropdown menu. “save and continue” basically just means “publish what I have here to wherever I selected to publish it, but keep me in the editor so I can keep working on it”
I’m looking forward to reading more! What I’d really like to see is an expert rebuttal to Eliezer’s arguments for multiple worlds (which I find compelling).
It may just be that you haven’t been exposed to a similarly compelling exposition of the other options (parable here). The main point of my article (which is now complete) is that the various rival interpretations have hardly even reached the status of exact theories; and then they still need to be put into commensurable forms, and the rest of the resulting theory-space charted. Only then can we avoid starting-point bias and carry out these Occam-like reasonings.
Your article still looks incomplete to me; there is quite a bit Eliezer_Yudkowsky presented to justify MWI that doesn’t appear to be addressed here. I’m not just comparing lengths of what each of you wrote; there is quite a bit of inferential distance he worked through and you would have to cast strong doubt on at least one of those steps to have a case.
Eliezer’s expository series doesn’t really engage with the other interpretations (see my reply to cousin_it). It is an enthusiastic exposition of a particular approach, but it is nothing like a serious examination of how it stacks up in comparison with the other options.
Things still publish even when you save to drafts, or at least they have for me. You need to click “Hide” after you save it; then others can’t see it and you can edit at your leisure, then unhide.
You’re quite right. I saved it and then logged out. Or that’s what I thought I was doing. And I came back just now intending to respond to Eliezer’s essay with a comment rather than a whole new article. I guess I’ll make the counterargument here after all.
You actually have to select the “draft” option from the dropdown menu. “save and continue” basically just means “publish what I have here to wherever I selected to publish it, but keep me in the editor so I can keep working on it”
Yeah—also remember to choose the “hide” option if you don’t want people to be able to see it yet.
I’m looking forward to reading more! What I’d really like to see is an expert rebuttal to Eliezer’s arguments for multiple worlds (which I find compelling).
It may just be that you haven’t been exposed to a similarly compelling exposition of the other options (parable here). The main point of my article (which is now complete) is that the various rival interpretations have hardly even reached the status of exact theories; and then they still need to be put into commensurable forms, and the rest of the resulting theory-space charted. Only then can we avoid starting-point bias and carry out these Occam-like reasonings.
Your article still looks incomplete to me; there is quite a bit Eliezer_Yudkowsky presented to justify MWI that doesn’t appear to be addressed here. I’m not just comparing lengths of what each of you wrote; there is quite a bit of inferential distance he worked through and you would have to cast strong doubt on at least one of those steps to have a case.
Eliezer’s expository series doesn’t really engage with the other interpretations (see my reply to cousin_it). It is an enthusiastic exposition of a particular approach, but it is nothing like a serious examination of how it stacks up in comparison with the other options.
Things still publish even when you save to drafts, or at least they have for me. You need to click “Hide” after you save it; then others can’t see it and you can edit at your leisure, then unhide.
It just looks like the article gets published, but actually it doesn’t—if you log out you’ll see it’s not published.
But I’m sure Mitchell_Porter was more careful and diligent when reviewing the issue of quantum physics interpretations...