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| | A startling discovery of recent decades is that the laws of physics are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. That is to say, for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall in a certain narrow range. Some scientists and philosophers try to explain this by postulating an enormous number of universes,...
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| | [This post has been updated and turned into a paper to be published in AMPPS] Much of the discussion in psychology surrounding Bayesian inference focuses on priors. Should we embrace priors, or should we be skeptical? When are Bayesian methods sensitive to specification of the prior, and when do the data effectively overwhelm it? Should...
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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.
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| Ross Andersen, The Atlantic. Senior Editor of Science, Technology, and Health. Previously a deputy editor at Aeon Magazine. Paul Bracken, Yale University. Professor of Management and Political Scie...