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The former doesn’t imply the latter.

I suspect one could think of QBism as a theory of rational belief for agents in a context where details of quantum mechanics are highly relevant.

Just as bayesianism is a theory of rational belief more generally.

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the former implies the latter through occam's razor.

I don’t follow.

Perhaps we are using “theory of” in different ways?

Probably. I'm using the technical, scientific definition.

What I mean is, “technical account/description of”

Scientific theories are explanations for ("why"), not passive descriptions.

I don’t know quite what you mean by this.

I don't disagree with you, but Occam's razor is a principle; a guideline. Not a hard law. From the panpsychic perspective all matter is conscious making everything a "subjective observer," which solves the same problem of humans being arbitrary special observers. Unprovable philosophical dead-end? Sure. Woo? Nah.

this is why I said "implies". I fully acknowledge that in principle QM and human minds might be intimately boundm but that, like panpsychism is effectively ipossible to prove or disprove in our current scientific framework.

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