CarlShulman comments on Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 07 September 2009 08:02:12PM 4 points [-]

The Boltzmann brain argument was the reason why I had not adopted something along the lines of UDT, despite having considered it and discussed it a bit with others, before the recent LW discussion. Instead, I had tagged it as 'needs more analysis later.' After the fact, that looks like flinching to me.