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Many-Wor­lds Interpretation

TagLast edit: 7 Feb 2021 18:30 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Standard quantum mechanics is made of two parts: a part that describes the unitary and deterministic evolution of a state vector, and a part that describes how a state vector randomly collapses when subjected to “measurement”.
The many-worlds interpretation (MWI) cuts away the latter part. It uses decoherence to explain how the universe splits into many separate branches, each of which looks like it came out of a random collapse.

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And the Win­ner is… Many-Wor­lds!

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jun 2008 6:05 UTC
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Many Wor­lds, One Best Guess

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 May 2008 8:32 UTC
51 points
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Mus­ing on the Many Wor­lds Hypothesis

David Gross5 Jul 2021 19:38 UTC
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Liv­ing in Many Worlds

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2008 2:24 UTC
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If Many-Wor­lds Had Come First

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 May 2008 7:43 UTC
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De­mys­tify­ing Born’s rule

Christopher King14 Jun 2023 3:16 UTC
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Why Many-Wor­lds Is Not The Ra­tion­ally Fa­vored Interpretation

Mitchell_Porter29 Sep 2009 5:22 UTC
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[Question] Can we, in prin­ci­ple, know the mea­sure of coun­ter­fac­tual quan­tum branches?

sisyphus18 Dec 2022 22:07 UTC
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[Question] What does “prob­a­bil­ity” re­ally mean?

sisyphus28 Dec 2022 3:20 UTC
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Inequal­ity Penalty: Mo­ral­ity in Many Worlds

Shmi11 Feb 2023 4:08 UTC
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Mul­ti­ple Wor­lds, One Univer­sal Wave Function

evhub4 Nov 2020 22:28 UTC
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Many-wor­lds ver­sus dis­crete knowledge

jessicata13 Aug 2020 18:35 UTC
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(unstableontology.com)

The Many Wor­lds of Hugh Everett

johnclark22 Apr 2011 15:26 UTC
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[Question] Quan­tum Suicide and Au­mann’s Agree­ment Theorem

Isaac King27 Oct 2022 1:32 UTC
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Many-Wor­lds In­ter­pre­ta­tion and Death with Dignity

amitlevy494 Apr 2022 16:19 UTC
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Plu­ral­is­tic Ex­is­tence in Many Many-Worlds

Neotenic12 Mar 2013 2:18 UTC
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Blog­ging­heads: Yud­kowsky and Aaron­son talk about AI and Many-worlds

Vladimir_Nesov16 Aug 2009 16:06 UTC
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[Question] When would an agent do some­thing differ­ent as a re­sult of be­liev­ing the many wor­lds the­ory?

mako yass15 Dec 2019 1:02 UTC
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Sub­jec­tive Ques­tions Re­quire Sub­jec­tive information

Ben23 Apr 2024 13:16 UTC
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[Question] What is the most effi­cient way to cre­ate more wor­lds in the many wor­lds in­ter­pre­ta­tion of quan­tum me­chan­ics?

seank11 Apr 2022 0:26 UTC
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De­mon­strat­ing MWI by in­terfer­ing hu­man simulations

Yair Halberstadt8 May 2022 17:28 UTC
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[Question] Would quan­tum im­mor­tal­ity mean sub­jec­tive im­mor­tal­ity?

n0ah2 Aug 2022 4:54 UTC
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Life, Death, and Fi­nance in the Cos­mic Mul­ti­verse

peterb16 Oct 2022 18:57 UTC
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Quan­tum Im­mor­tal­ity, foiled

Ben29 Oct 2022 11:00 UTC
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What kind of place is this?

Jim Pivarski25 Feb 2023 2:14 UTC
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Dice De­ci­sion Making

Bart Bussmann10 Mar 2023 13:01 UTC
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the quan­tum am­pli­tude ar­gu­ment against ethics deduplication

Tamsin Leake12 Mar 2023 13:02 UTC
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(carado.moe)

Prefer­ence For (Many) Fu­ture Worlds

wedrifid15 Jul 2011 23:31 UTC
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[un­ti­tled post]

DrJuanDempere13 Dec 2023 13:30 UTC
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Quan­tum Dar­winism, so­cial con­structs, and the sci­en­tific method

pchvykov7 Feb 2024 7:04 UTC
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The Po­ten­tial Im­pos­si­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Death

VictorLJZ4 Jul 2024 18:17 UTC
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What is Ran­dom­ness?

martinkunev27 Sep 2024 17:49 UTC
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AI Safety via Luck

Jozdien1 Apr 2023 20:13 UTC
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The Con­scious Sorites Paradox

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Apr 2008 2:58 UTC
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MWI, copies and probability

Roko25 Jun 2010 16:46 UTC
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Dy­ing in Many Worlds

Ghatanathoah21 Dec 2012 11:48 UTC
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This Failing Earth

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 May 2009 16:09 UTC
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Phys­i­cal­ism im­plies ex­pe­rience never dies. So what am I go­ing to ex­pe­rience af­ter it does?

Szymon Kucharski14 Mar 2021 14:45 UTC
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Ethics in Many Worlds

fin6 Nov 2020 23:21 UTC
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[Cross­post] In­tro­duc­ing the Save State Paradox

Suzie. EXE18 May 2024 17:00 UTC
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False vac­uum: the uni­verse play­ing quan­tum suicide

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jan 2013 17:04 UTC
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