Normal_Anomaly comments on Model Uncertainty, Pascalian Reasoning and Utilitarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 14 June 2011 08:15:34PM *  1 point [-]

I think the universe implicitly defines a reference point in the physics. By way of illustration, I think Tegmark sometimes talks about an inflation scenario where an actually infinite space is the same as a finite bubble that expands from a definite point, but with different coordinates that mix up space and time; and in that case I think that definite point would be algorithmically privileged. But I'm even fuzzier on all this than before.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 14 June 2011 08:28:24PM 0 points [-]

If hypothetically our universe had a privileged point, what would you do if you discovered you were much farther away from it than average?