benelliott comments on Fine-tuned for Interestingness vs. Ramsey's Theorem - Less Wrong
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This, so much this.
Alexandros' argument is exactly the kind of utter rubbish you get when you give a mathematical theorem to a philosopher. A delicate, precise theorem that works by exploiting details of one specific situation gets bulldozed into a general principle that couldn't be more wrong.
Reminds me of the argument that rationality is impossible because most numbers are irrational.