Re:A physicist argues that information is at the root of eve...
by goodside on Monday April 26, 2010 @09:14AM
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"Insofar as we can all agree when a measurement happened, physicists operating under Copenhagen are going to be just as effective as those who understand MWI."
Agreed. If you're only worrying about the mundane medium-sized world we live in and what QM predicts we'll see in it, MWI vs. Copenhagen won't matter. Here, it does, as he's apparently using Cop. as a part of his argument.
So I really don't think interpretation is going to be correlated with advances in the computational aspects (i.e., what kind of problems are quantum computers good for once they are built, etc.) but I would predict that future insights in how to build computers which are robust against decoherence will be dominates by those who understand MWI.