Jonathan_Graehl comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 02:43AM

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 03 October 2010 07:38:25AM 2 points [-]

Yep. Over-reliance on anthropic arguments IMO.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 08:15:21AM *  2 points [-]

Huh, querying my reasons for thinking 99.5% is reasonable, few are related to anthropics. Most of it is antiprediction about the various implications of a big universe, as well as the antiprediction that we live in such a big universe.

(ETA: edited out 'if any', I do indeed have a few arguments from anthropics, but not in the sense of typical anthropic reasoning, and none that can be easily shared or explained. I know that sounds bad. Oh well.)