It does not all add up to normality. We are living in a weird universe. (75%)
My initial reaction was that this is not a statement of belief but one of opinion, and to think like reality.
We are living in a Fun Theory universe where we find ourselves as individual or aggregate fun theoretic agents, or something else really bizarre that is not explained by naive Less Wrong rationality, such as multiversal agents playing with lots of humanity’s measure.
I’m still not entirely sure what you mean (further elaboration would be very welcome), but going by a naive understanding I upvoted your comment based on the principle of Occam’s Razor—whatever your reasons for believing this (presumably perceived inconsistencies, paradoxes etc. in the observable world, physics etc.) I doubt your conceived “weird” universe would the simplest explanation. Additionally, that conceived weird universe in addition to lacking epistemic/empirical ground begs for more explanation than the understanding/lack thereof of the universe/reality that’s more of less shared by current scientific consensus.
If I’m understanding correctly, your argument for the existence of a “weird universe” is analagous to an argument for the existence of God (or the supernatural, for that matter): where by introducing some cosmic force beyond reason and empiricism, we eliminate the problem of there being phenomena which can’t be explained by it.
We are living in a Fun Theory universe where we find ourselves as individual or aggregate fun theoretic agents, or something else really bizarre that is not explained by naive Less Wrong rationality, such as multiversal agents playing with lots of humanity’s measure.
The more I hear about this the more intrigued I get. Could someone with a strong belief in this hypothesis write a post about it? Or at the very least throw out hints about how you updated in this direction?
Would “Fortean phenomena really do occur, and some type of anthropic effect keeps them from being verifiable by scientific observers” fit under this statement?
It does not all add up to normality. We are living in a weird universe. (75%)
My initial reaction was that this is not a statement of belief but one of opinion, and to think like reality.
I’m still not entirely sure what you mean (further elaboration would be very welcome), but going by a naive understanding I upvoted your comment based on the principle of Occam’s Razor—whatever your reasons for believing this (presumably perceived inconsistencies, paradoxes etc. in the observable world, physics etc.) I doubt your conceived “weird” universe would the simplest explanation. Additionally, that conceived weird universe in addition to lacking epistemic/empirical ground begs for more explanation than the understanding/lack thereof of the universe/reality that’s more of less shared by current scientific consensus.
If I’m understanding correctly, your argument for the existence of a “weird universe” is analagous to an argument for the existence of God (or the supernatural, for that matter): where by introducing some cosmic force beyond reason and empiricism, we eliminate the problem of there being phenomena which can’t be explained by it.
Please specify what you mean by a weird universe.
We are living in a Fun Theory universe where we find ourselves as individual or aggregate fun theoretic agents, or something else really bizarre that is not explained by naive Less Wrong rationality, such as multiversal agents playing with lots of humanity’s measure.
The more I hear about this the more intrigued I get. Could someone with a strong belief in this hypothesis write a post about it? Or at the very least throw out hints about how you updated in this direction?
Would “Fortean phenomena really do occur, and some type of anthropic effect keeps them from being verifiable by scientific observers” fit under this statement?
That sounds weird to me.
Downvoted in agreement (I happen to know generally what Kevin’s talking about here, but it’s really hard to concisely explain the intuition).
Why do you think so?
For some definitions of weird, our deal (assuming it continues to completion) is enough to land this universe in the block of weird universes.