Recovering_irrationalist comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

66 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 October 2008 03:42PM

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Comment author: Recovering_irrationalist 05 October 2008 10:13:00PM 1 point [-]

Eliezer: imagine that you, yourself, live in a what-if world of pure mathematics

Isn't this true? It seems the simplest solution to "why is there something rather than nothing". Is there any real evidence against our apparently timeless, branching physics being part of a purely mathematical structure? I wouldn't be shocked if the bottom was all Bayes-structure :)