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DanArmak comments on I need a protocol for dangerous or disconcerting ideas. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanArmak 12 July 2015 12:54:41PM 2 points [-]

That depends on the set of worlds and the measure used. For instance, some models predict that almost all minds will be Boltzmann brains that are uncorrelated with their environment beyond a small local bubble. We can't falsify these models directly; we just have to assume they're wrong to be able to use the past to predict the future.