I reflexively downvoted this, so I feel obliged to explained why. Mostly because it reads to me like content-free word salad repeating the buzzwords like Solomonoff induction, Kolmogorov complexity and Occam’s razor. And it claims to disprove something it doesn’t even clearly define. Not trying to impose my opinion on others here, just figured I’d write it out, since being silently downvoted sucks, at least for me.
My understanding is that the article makes these claims:
1. Universes with “more complex rules” than ours are actually less likely to contain life, because there are more possibilities how things could go wrong.
2. Universes with “more complex rules” are a priori less likely.
Therefore: If our universe is a simulation in another universe, the parent universe likely doesn’t have “more complex rules” than ours, because the probability penalty for having “more complex rules” outweighs the fact that such universe could easily find enough computing power to simulate many universes like ours.
I am not defending the assumptions, nor the conclusion, only trying to provide a summary with fewer buzzwords. (Actually, I agree with the assumption 2, but I am not convinced about the rest.)
I reflexively downvoted this, so I feel obliged to explained why. Mostly because it reads to me like content-free word salad repeating the buzzwords like Solomonoff induction, Kolmogorov complexity and Occam’s razor. And it claims to disprove something it doesn’t even clearly define. Not trying to impose my opinion on others here, just figured I’d write it out, since being silently downvoted sucks, at least for me.
My understanding is that the article makes these claims:
I am not defending the assumptions, nor the conclusion, only trying to provide a summary with fewer buzzwords. (Actually, I agree with the assumption 2, but I am not convinced about the rest.)