eed to the same extent as the
sorts of guarantees we get in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics, then that's
scientific enough for me. :-)
Brian Holtz
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me) than non-nice functions. Etc .
But all that is required to
resolve the induction objection is that not-nice universes are usually not
noticeable as such to their inhabitants. I guess I need to learn some more
transfinite mathematics before I'll be able to understand how (whethe
y irregular worlds, even if apparently
irregular worlds predominate over worlds that in fact contain neither
apparent nor non-apparent irregularities. I'm guessing I would have this
intuition even if weren't attracted to an information-theoretic approach to
defining or specifying wor
at apparently regular worlds should predominate over apparently
irregular worlds, even if apparently irregular worlds predominate over worlds
that in fact contain neither apparent nor non-apparent irregularities. I've yet to hear (or at least understand) anything
that contradicts this intuition.
Brian Holtz
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book: http://humanknowledge.net
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Alex Pruss wrote:
Remember that I am working in David Lewis's framework. Each world
is a physical object: a bunch of matter, connected
together spatiotemporally. So I do not need to work with
specifications, but with concrete chunks of stuff. There is nothing
fur
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Hi everyone (in this world and all
relevantly similar ones :-),
I like the solution to the Induction /
Dragon / Exploding Cow problem that I see in work by Malcolm, Standish, Tegmark,
and Schmidhuber. So I forwarded references to Alexander Pruss, whose
dissertation raises th
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