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39 Post author: Wei_Dai 20 December 2012 06:53PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 25 December 2012 04:09:41AM 1 point [-]

Can you give an example of a mathematical formulation of a void cathedral, just to show that such a thing is possible?

One description is something like the following: take the space of computable universes that agree with our observations so far. Rather than putting an Occam prior over it, put an ultrafilter on it. One can pick the ultrafilter so that the set of universes where any particular level is fundamental has measure zero.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 27 December 2012 11:18:47AM 1 point [-]

I'm afraid I lack the background knowledge and/or math skills to figure out your idea from this short description. I can't find any papers after doing a search either, so I guess this is your original idea? If so, why not write it up somewhere?