PeterS comments on Rationality quotes: June 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PeterS 01 June 2010 08:14:08PM *  2 points [-]

The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

-KPAX

(I do not present this as an endorsement of the Big Bounce hypothesis.)

Comment author: novalis 02 June 2010 03:56:27AM 5 points [-]

How could you distinguish a repeating process consisting of the entire universe, from that process happening only once?

Comment author: PeterS 02 June 2010 04:08:19AM 3 points [-]

If it were truly repeating, you couldn't. Unless you were a KPAXian and the screenwriters wrote it to be so.

Comment author: orthonormal 02 June 2010 02:02:29AM 1 point [-]

The idea of the eternal recurrence didn't originate with that movie.

Comment author: PeterS 02 June 2010 03:58:25AM *  1 point [-]

I know. What's your point?

I was presenting the quote along the lines of UDT, and this.

Comment author: orthonormal 03 June 2010 12:46:45AM 2 points [-]

Fair enough. It just bugs me on a status level to have an idea that was well-stated by famous philosophers quoted from K-PAX instead. I realize I'm being irrational here.

Comment author: cupholder 01 June 2010 10:25:04PM 1 point [-]

Gerry Rafferty offers an alternative perspective.

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