Responses on Many Worlds and Occam’s Razor

Friday’s post “Many Worlds and Occam’s Razor” generated a lot of good discussion on Twitter over the weekend, with contributions from Philip Ball, Sabine Hossenfelder, Jim Baggott, and many others.

Much discussion focused on whether or not Occam’s Razor is useful (or is misused):

Sabine Hossenfelder criticized the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI):

 Philip Ball and Jim Baggott had this exchange:

I think Jim makes an important point, which I emphasized here:

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