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| | unstableontology.com
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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...
| | scottaaronson.blog
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| | I've been increasingly tempted to make this blog into a forum solely for responding to the posts at Overcoming Bias. (Possible new name: "Wallowing in Bias.") Two days ago, Robin Hanson pointed to a fascinating paper by Bousso, Harnik, Kribs, and Perez, on predicting the cosmological constant from an "entropic" version of the anthropic principle....
| | philpapers.org
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| | [AI summary] The provided text is a collection of various academic and philosophical works, including journal articles, essays, and book preprints, covering topics such as cosmology, the philosophy of science, the anthropic principle, and the fine-tuning argument. It includes discussions on the structure of the universe, the nature of time, and the role of consciousness in science. There are also mentions of specific authors and their contributions to these fields, as well as some critiques of Bayesian reasoning and anthropic arguments. The text also contains some personal reflections and opinions on current scientific and philosophical debates.
| | www.schneier.com
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