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>The only problem is that many people consider it to be "creepy".

That seems like an unfair characterization. The issue many have with the Everett Interpretation is that it relies on a fundamentally untestable existence of every possible universe in every possible state of being for the sake of conceptual tidiness. It's not unreasonable to apply Occam's razor and hold a measure of skepticism about this.

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In my opinion, Occam's Razor does not say that you should prefer the theory that has the simplest consequences, but rather that you should accept the simplest theory that explains the observations.

The Everett Interpretation is clearly the simplest theory because the deep mystery of what would cause probability waves to collapse is made completely irrelevant. There is no wave collapse to worry about or to explain.

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