> His overall view of probability is satisfyingly coherent, but I do not consider myself sufficiently expert to assess whether it is meaningfully better than the alternatives.
You're probably under-confident. I have read the first two chapters, and they just felt obvious to me. While I understand we could refine probability theory, I think we can say that anything that contradicts it is probably bollocks.
> And there are places where I believe he is just wrong, e.g. he seems to reject Bell's inequality and view quantum probability as just another case of limited information.
There is a part where he's definitely right, though: the so called "quantum probability" is not a probability at all. No matter how much it looks like a probability, it's something out there in the territory, and probability is in the mind. Besides, the idea that complex numbers (amplitude) could be probabilities is rather ridiculous. And of course, the then popular interpretation of quantum mechanics was crazy: it was either contradicting or denying the very equations that made so good predictions in the first place!
Now he could have criticized Many World as well, for it may seem it's a cop-out as well. We have reduced the Born statistics to an anthropic problem, but we haven't solved it yet.
You're probably under-confident. I have read the first two chapters, and they just felt obvious to me. While I understand we could refine probability theory, I think we can say that anything that contradicts it is probably bollocks.
> And there are places where I believe he is just wrong, e.g. he seems to reject Bell's inequality and view quantum probability as just another case of limited information.
There is a part where he's definitely right, though: the so called "quantum probability" is not a probability at all. No matter how much it looks like a probability, it's something out there in the territory, and probability is in the mind. Besides, the idea that complex numbers (amplitude) could be probabilities is rather ridiculous. And of course, the then popular interpretation of quantum mechanics was crazy: it was either contradicting or denying the very equations that made so good predictions in the first place!
Now he could have criticized Many World as well, for it may seem it's a cop-out as well. We have reduced the Born statistics to an anthropic problem, but we haven't solved it yet.