paulfchristiano 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: paulfchristiano 16 May 2011 06:16:00PM *  3 points [-]

Ramsey theory deals with more varied objects than colored graphs, though Ramsey's theorem itself is almost what you claim it to be. See for example the Wikipedia article on Ramsey theory. The existence of ordered substructures within huge combinatorial objects is itself more general than Ramsey theory. It requires only a little imagination to conceive of a similar phenomenon producing the apparent rich structure in our universe. (Though I don't think this line of reasoning is very interesting.)