Baughn comments on The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Baughn 06 November 2011 07:01:43PM *  1 point [-]

Yes, but perhaps not very much, and definitely not because we wrote a story about them; that's pure coincidence. Any story with finite information content should be coincidentally similar to some actual real universe, but following Solomonoff induction there's a sense in which the more complex ones are not as real as, say, us.