Brillyant comments on Open thread, Mar. 14 - Mar. 20, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 16 March 2016 05:40:25AM 2 points [-]

Positing a hyper-powerful creative entity seems not that epistemologically reckless

How about epistemicologically useless? What caused your hyper-powerful creative entity? You haven't accomplished anything, you've just added another black box to your collection.

Comment author: Brillyant 16 March 2016 01:36:50PM 1 point [-]

Can you explain how a simulated universe, for instance, is more useful than deism? Doesn't it also simply move the question of ultimate origins back a step?

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 19 March 2016 09:21:53PM 0 points [-]

Right, which is why I don't postulate a simulated universe as the explanation for existence.