Artyom comments on Resist the Happy Death Spiral - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Artyom 05 December 2007 07:47:27PM 0 points [-]

Feyerabend, as Greg Egan put it, "the basis of science is just systematic honesty, and there's nothing we can't be honest about". Of what use are "alternative approaches", I wonder!

But personally, I doubt life has any meaning in the context of infinite universe, where every possible history is guaranteed to exist or even already exists in some way, as I understand it.