benelliott comments on Fine-tuned for Interestingness vs. Ramsey's Theorem - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Alexandros 16 May 2011 05:07PM

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Comment author: benelliott 16 May 2011 05:55:01PM *  3 points [-]

It says nothing about the Universe and "interestingness". This is because the Universe is a universe, not a colored complete graph.

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.