Confusion about a cosmologist comments on his own interpretation of quantum mechanics

Some years ago, I was having a discussion via email with cosmologist George Smoot

I asked whether his views expressed in this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5952) indicated that he held a view similar to the "many worlds" interpretation in the sense that there would be other universes besides our own one

However he answered this:

>Clearly you have a desired and preferred result. Why don't you find some theory that gives your favourite result. My view is a bit more complicated than described previously. It does hold that many different versions of the Universe coexist with very different weightings and that it is likely one is in a version with high weighting and it is likely most of the high weightings are similar. However, they are forbidden to communicate and interact just like things outside the horizon. If they communicated and interacted, then they would be part of the same Universe version.

I was re-reading the conversation and I'm a bit confused, because in the first part he is suggesting that his interpretation is different from what I was asking (when he suggests to find another theory). But then he explains that he holds that there would be different versions of the universe coexisting (which are pretty much equivalent to different "universes" or "worlds").

Then, wouldn't his view be pretty much what I was asking (a view considering different versions of the universe as real, or basically as different "worlds", similar to the "many worlds" interpretation)?

Unfortunately Smoot died last year and cannot answer this, so this is why I'm asking this question in this community. What do you think?