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A comment on Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity. Parent comment

Re:Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity by anigbrowl on Thursday September 10, 2015 @08:00PM (#10201279)
I have known about MW for 25 years or more, thanks to popular science writers. I don't see it getting more traction than it already has absent some way to falsify it. It's stylish from a distance, but like imaginary numbers, you should tidy up your multiverse when you are done playing with it.
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Re:Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity by spacehome on Thursday September 10, 2015 @10:47PM (#10201736)
That's a common criticism, but many-worlds is a consequence of a theory, not a theory itself. Plus all the other candidates are worse. (And Copenhagen isn't really a theory at all since it never gets around to defining what a 'measurement' is.)
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Re:Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity by millstone on Friday September 11, 2015 @02:38AM (#10202296)
Many worlds requires postulates (Everett's word!) that are not a consequence of theory, in particular that the wavefunction is an objective property of a particle. This is very much in dispute, and is rejected by the ensemble interpretation, consistent histories, etc.

I don't agree that those interpretations are inferior to MWI. In particular those theories postulate that the world is essentially probabilistic, and so do not have MWI's trouble with predicting probabilities.

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Re:Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity by DavidPlumpton on Friday September 11, 2015 @05:00AM (#10202677)
You might find this interesting http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...
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