Vladimir_Nesov comments on Should We Ban Physics? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 21 July 2008 08:35:05AM 4 points [-]

"So, across the whole of the Tegmark Level IV multiverse - containing all possible physical universes with all laws of physics, weighted by the laws' simplicity"

This is not evidence. There is no way you can extract an answer to the question that doesn't influence your decision-making. Weighting the universes is epiphenomenal. We can only look at the laws and content of out world in the search for the answers.