ewbrownv comments on Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 September 2009 07:02PM

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Comment author: ewbrownv 09 September 2009 08:42:26PM 4 points [-]

It seems to me that “I’m a Bolzmann brain” is exactly the same sort of useless hypothesis as “Everything I think I experience is a hallucination manufactured by an omnipotent evil genie”. They’re both non-falsifiable by definition, unsupported by any evidence, and have no effect on one’s decisions in any event. So I say: show me some evidence, and I’ll worry about it. Otherwise it isn’t even worth thinking about.