do you actually think that's an argument against the physics this piece bases itself on?
There are two fundamentally controversial aspects about Smolin's thesis: (1) Unfalsifiability of the central claim and the leap from premises to the consequence that is not necessarily entailed by them (i.e., that our universe is optimal for formation of black holes).
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According to Smolin's own scenario, the actual consequence derived from his set of premises is that most of the universes are optimal for black hole formation, not that our universe is essentially following that telos.
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The second damning aspect is that his thesis attempts to explain everything, but by doing so it becomes oblivious to the fact that what it doesn't explain is why physical laws are this way rather than another, or why quantum gravity is true.
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