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No, you asked for references to support a point of logic.gentzen said:I am simply pointing out that saying "and rather obviously so" without any supporting arguments is a bit disappointing in a discussion like this.
Ha! When I want lessons on the art of persuasion, I'll be sure to let you know. To be honest this thread is about convincing me, my views are actually off-topic.gentzen said:Your logical thinking is fine, but your rhetorics (the art of persuasion) has room for improvement.
Enough of this banter! Let's get back to some physics and see whether it's relevant. Deal?
Could be #90gentzen said:So your argument is that the principle of indifference cannot be applied in cases where there obviously is a difference. This seems to be a good argument against some of the misguided stuff that came up during this discussion. I think you (or someone else) made that argument before, and I liked that post. But apparently not, because I am unable to find that post again.
Let me clear this up. Decomposing a state into orthonormal equiprobable microstates is key to deriving the Born Rule. So my own view is that it is the very opposite of miguided. Messing around creating any other decomposition is misguided in this context.gentzen said:I was hoping for a simple convincing argument why trying to reduce all probabilities in MWI to the case of equal probabilities is misguided.
you: You see, I had hoped for a "MWI proponent" that could engage in discussions like
" Of course not, because MWI advocates, when they discuss this aspect at all, avoid pointing out the obvious fact that all outcomes happen in the MWI. They avoid pointing it out precisely because it would invite the reader to make the observation I made, and that would undermine MWI advocates' attempts to formulate a meaningful concept of probability. At least, that's my skeptical take on it." - PeterDonis
you: and come up with convincing arguments for the MWI side. My arguments go along the line of "do you have a reference for this?", but of course that is normally hardly convincing.
Well, I am not really a proponent. I can play Devil's Advocate but you'll only get my take on it. And I adamantly refuse to use an argument from authority. That said, I don't see anyone else here doing it so maybe "needs must when the devil drives". But only so far as saying "this seems to make sense to me", not polemically defending it a claim.
The correct reponse is then "no, you're going wrong here" not "give us reference!"
So where's the physics? I could tell you whether I think that PeterDonis's argument makes sense, but do you really have to ask?
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