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Comment author: Dagon 21 October 2015 02:55:36PM 0 points [-]

How do #1 and #3 differ? I think both are "yes, there are many such worlds - we happen to be in this one".

Comment author: polymathwannabe 21 October 2015 04:54:01PM *  1 point [-]

It doesn't sound impossible that anthropic probabilities are weighted by simplicity and we're lucky.

Comment author: Dagon 21 October 2015 07:11:27PM 0 points [-]

Hmm. I think "we're lucky" implies "probabilities are irrelevant for actual results", so it obsoletes #3.

Comment author: cousin_it 21 October 2015 07:42:40PM *  1 point [-]

I think "we're lucky" vs "simplicity is irrelevant" affects how much undiscovered complexity in physics we should expect.

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