On 10/8/2019 2:41 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:35 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 10/8/2019 12:10 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
I watched a little of Sean's talk at Google. It is a very slick
marketing exercise -- reminded me of a con man, or a snake oil
salesman. Too slick by half.
What do you think he's selling?
His book? Actually, he is selling a particular approach to QM, and
claiming, in no uncertain terms, that his is the only "true" approach.
No. He explicitly says (at 14:45) he's going to explain the
interpretation he favors but there are others which he discusses in his
book.
I take particular exception to his claim that MWI is the SWE and
nothing else. He elides the many additional assumptions that he has to
make to get correspondence with experience, but derides other
approaches for making assumptions! That is just dishonest.
What additional assumptions do you mean?
I think Carroll is a good speaker, a good popularizer, and a nice guy.
He is certainly a polished speaker, and is probably a nice guy. But
that does not make him right.
I feel fortunate to have him representing physics to the
public. He is not evangelizing for some particular interpretation
and he recognizes that there are alternative interpretations of QM
even though he favors MWI.
Maybe so in his book, but that was not apparent in the lecture.
Also, he's the only scientist who debated William Lane Craig and
won by every measure.
Bully for him. Debating William Lane Craig is not the height of
science......
No but several scientists have not done well at it, including Vic.
Brent
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