What caused you to invoke “Science!” in the sense you did here at all? It seems to hint a confusion about epistemology and a status move. It is easy to come up with scenarios where we are tasked with making predictions about things where science fails and do quite well. See this article by Eliezer.
I disagree. You know how scientific method works, right? You make an observation, create a model, make another observation and see how well your model fits. With a unique phenomena you only have one observation.
The whole anthropic principle thing just annoys me because it seems to stem from a confusion. People can certainly imagine a lot of universes without people. So they compare it to the real world and say it is fine-tuned. But this is a misapplication of scientific method. What you imagine is not an observation. You can’t invent different laws of physics and pretend they exist somewhere.
I mean, look at the text you posted. Nick Land thinks the idea that we are in the beginning of time is odd. Why? Does he have a window into another universe which isn’t odd?
What caused you to invoke “Science!” in the sense you did here at all? It seems to hint a confusion about epistemology and a status move. It is easy to come up with scenarios where we are tasked with making predictions about things where science fails and do quite well. See this article by Eliezer.
I disagree. You know how scientific method works, right? You make an observation, create a model, make another observation and see how well your model fits. With a unique phenomena you only have one observation.
The whole anthropic principle thing just annoys me because it seems to stem from a confusion. People can certainly imagine a lot of universes without people. So they compare it to the real world and say it is fine-tuned. But this is a misapplication of scientific method. What you imagine is not an observation. You can’t invent different laws of physics and pretend they exist somewhere.
I mean, look at the text you posted. Nick Land thinks the idea that we are in the beginning of time is odd. Why? Does he have a window into another universe which isn’t odd?