MakoYass comments on Principia Compat. The potential Importance of Multiverse Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MakoYass 25 March 2016 10:48:53PM 0 points [-]

Understandable. You could definitely be right about that. Compat is a theory that boosts its own probability just for being thought about. Such theories are dangerous for rationalists with histories of spiritualism.

Which, unfortunately for me, is a category that includes a large number of rationalists.

Right now it's dangling by a few multiverse immortality precepts and some very extreme measure differentials and I'm not sure it's going to hold together in the end. You'll probably hear about it if it does. I might make a post even if it doesn't(could make an interesting parable about the tenacity of religion even under rationalism). Either way, when that happens, I'll update this thread. But don't check it too often. This can be practice for you in ignoring your triggers.