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 07 October 2008 12:25:00AM 0 points [-]

it doesn't explain why we find ourselves in a low-entropy universe rather than a high-entropy one

I didn't think it would solve all our questions, I just wondered if it was both the simplest solution and lacking good evidence to the contrary. Would there be a higher chance of being a Boltzmann brain in a universe identical to ours that happened to be part of a what-if-world? If not, how is all this low-entropy around me evidence against it?

Just because what-if is something that humans find deductively compelling does not explain how or why it exists Platonically

How would our "Block Universe" look different from the inside if it was a what-if-Block-Universe? It all adds up to...

Not trying to argue, just curious.