Kevin comments on Shock Level 5: Big Worlds and Modal Realism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kevin 26 May 2010 05:22:45AM 0 points [-]

Have you read Tegmark's papers? http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html You should read The Multiverse Hierarchy if you haven't.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 26 May 2010 05:27:43AM 0 points [-]

Have you read Tegmark's papers?

No, I am going by the characterization of the hypothesis given on LW.

You should read The Multiverse Hierarchy if you haven't.

Thanks for the link :). But I confess that I was hoping that someone could at least hint at Tegmark's answers to my questions. That would help me to decide whether reading the papers is worth it.

Comment author: Kevin 26 May 2010 05:36:18AM 2 points [-]

Sorry, I'm not sure how to satisfactorily answer your questions. Don't be intimidated by the paper though; Tegmark may be the best popular science writer out there and The Multiverse Hierarchy is written for a wide audience. It is not dumbed down; it just doesn't have any math. Even the "full-strength" paper is not very mathy in the scheme of physics papers.