Emily Adlam

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Jacob Barandes and Emily Adlam: Why Many Worlds Is Nonsensical · 25 Jun 2025 podcast

Um, and which is this is different to the non-self-location case, right?

For example, if if we do a sort of series of coin flips and I'm placing bits on that, I can say, well, my goal is to maximize my winnings over all of the bets.

And then there's still a further question after that, what will in fact maximize my winnings?

Uh, what odds should I should I bet?

And we can only answer that by you know empirically testing the coin and finding out about its properties and understanding.

That process.

There's no step like that in the self-location case.

As soon as you've specified what you're trying to achieve, that immediately fixes what you should bet.

There's no sort of empirical considerations or theoretical considerations that could possibly be relevant.

Your goal just immediately dictates what your bet is.

So there's kind of no room for sort of rationality to play any role here.

All that's really happening is that you're making a decision based on your personal values and goals about what you would like to.

achieve and then that will just immediately fix all the bits.

Uh there is the many minds interpretation, which I think is a little bit like that, except instead of one hopping ego, there's a whole bunch of hopping egos and you could be one of the hopping egos and you're gonna go into different branches branches.

Uh and I think uh in fairness, I think that does solve some of the problems that I have with the Everett interpretation.

I I c I think you can sort of straightforwardly understand what probability is and how we get predictions out of that.

Um so that that addresses some problems.

It introduces a lot of other problems though, because one of the sort of one of the main selling points of the ever interpretation is supposed to be that you you just have the standard formalism, you don't have to add any extra structure, you don't have to pick out a preferred basis, you don't have to have any additions, you just have this uh underlying uh simple quantum mechanical structure.

So as soon as you add in either one hopping Cartesian ego or a bunch of hopping Cartesian egos, you can't make that claim.

You're no longer just

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