zero_call comments on Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky - Less Wrong

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Comment author: zero_call 08 August 2010 07:07:39PM 2 points [-]

I don't think this is much of an insight, to be honest. The "anthropic" interpretation is a statement that the universe requires self-consistency. Which is, let's say, not surprising.

The purpose of natural selection, fine-tuning of physical constants in our universe, and of countless other detailed coincidences (1) was to create me. (Or, for the readers of this comment, to create you)

My feeling is that this is a statement about the English language. This is not a statement about the universe.