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In defense of the presumptuous philosopher - Joe Carlsmith
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In defense of the presumptuous philosopher - Joe Carlsmith
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| | Final essay in a four-part series, explaining why I think that one prominent approach to anthropic reasoning (the "Self-Indication Assumption" or "SIA") is better than another (the "Self-Sampling Assumption" or "SSA"). This part discusses some prominent objections to SIA.
| | unstableontology.com
SSA rejects anthropic shadow, too - Unstable Ontology
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| | (or: "Please Do Anthropics with Actual Math") The anthropic shadow argument states something like: Anthropic principle! If the LHC had worked, it would have produced a black hole or strangelet or vacuum failure, and we wouldn't be here! or: You can't use "we survived the cold war without nuclear war" as evidence of anything. Because...
| | reducing-suffering.org
Anthropics without Reference Classes
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| | qri.org
An Introduction to Steven Lehar, Part III: Flame Fronts and Shock Scaffolds
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| [AI summary] An in-depth exploration of Steven Lehar's theories on visual reification, flame fronts, and shock scaffolds, proposing that the brain acts as a field-based computer solving the inverse optics problem through nonlinear wave phenomena.