James_Miller comments on Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 07 June 2014 04:00:03AM *  2 points [-]

For observers to exist some parts of the universe must follow patterns, but not necessarily all of it. Could the "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics" relate to why all of the universe can probably be modeled with math?

Comment author: DanArmak 07 June 2014 01:40:38PM 2 points [-]

That seems related to the anthropic questions of why the universe is much more ordered than the minimum required for Boltzmann brains, or much older than the minimum required for life to develop.