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Manfred comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: Manfred 02 January 2012 07:17:47AM *  0 points [-]

You're right that observing that we're in a habitable universe doesn't tell us anything. However, there are a lot more observations about the universe that we use in discussions about quantum mechanics. And some observations suit the idea that we're know what's going on better than others. "Know what's going on" here means that a theory that is sufficient to explain all of reality in our local neighborhood is also followed more globally.