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by andrewgleave 1126 days ago
David Deutsch’s “Physics Without Probability” covers the history of probability, it’s legitimate and misconceived uses and concludes that according to MWI there is no such thing in reality - it’s basically that probabilities correspond to how measures of the multiverse proportion themselves as differentiation occurs.

I watched it a few years ago so may be misremembering bits but I think that is the gist…

Worth a watch especially if you balk at this idea just to to see a strong counter argument.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wfzSE4Hoxbc&t=0s

Edit: link

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There is no contradiction. In Many Worlds Interprepation, Each World (and mostly importantly, with relative weight = 1, the World I am in right now) is built on probabilities.