DanielLC comments on Be careful with thought experiments - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 19 May 2012 06:26:05AM 3 points [-]

It's not a small exception. The vast majority of the laws of physics would be specifying what XeYZn is, just so that it can make it act like water should. In accordance to occam's razor, this is astronomically unlikely. It's still possible. To anyone looking at it on a larger scale, it would seem just like ours.