Crab quest: your best argument that we are *not* living in a torture simulation.
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@St_Rev Translate into a statement about distribution of measure. -
@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev I'm not convinced we live in a universe where anthropics is useful or interesting -
@drethelin@St_Rev Anthropics+measure is really nifty if we live in an infinite universe. Finite universe, basically useless. -
@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev recharacterizing risks as increasing or decreasing measure can help people think about probabilities I guess -
@drethelin@St_Rev Oh, and also assuming we have nonzero measure, which is also not trivial. -
@GrumplessGrinch@drethelin The thing that made me pretty much switch off on LW was EY's insistence that MWI was obviously correct. -
@St_Rev@drethelin Yeah. Most of my infinite-universe thinking is based on Tegmark IV. -
@GrumplessGrinch@drethelin And Tegmark space is wildly, absurdly non-measurable. - 11 more replies
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@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch not all evidence standards, even scientific ones, are predicated on Popperian falsifiability. -
@bitemyapp@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch Right, it's bayesian evidence, at least it might be depending on prior. -
@abramdemski@st_rev@grumplessgrinch bayesian is a toolkit, not an epistemology. -
@bitemyapp@St_Rev@GrumplessGrinch point is about the word evidence, which has a good Bayesian definition that works here.
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