Caledonian2 comments on The Simple Math of Everything - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 19 November 2007 04:11:01AM 0 points [-]

Well, the obvious point is that the Copernican Principle is frequently wrong. The Anthropic Principle does a fairly good job at pointing out the weaknesses of the CP, to start with, and remembering that all else is rarely equal takes care of most of the rest.