Larks comments on A note on hypotheticals - Less Wrong

19 Post author: PhilGoetz 07 August 2009 06:56PM

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Comment author: Larks 11 August 2009 09:58:58PM 0 points [-]

The reason I'm not sure is it sounds like you're describing cases where a hypothetical, designed for some other purpose is flawed, unbeknownst to the creator, whereas Olber's paradox was a case of a hypothetical framed to show a contradiction in our existing knowledge of the universe.