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On 2015-09-04 00:41, Dan wrote:<br>
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Ah, those brains in vats. Always showing up in epistemology, taking
the jobs from us honest Boltzmann brains. <br>
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I like the paper. It actually gives a good reason not to believe in
weird existential risk theories (maybe the LHC makes black holes
when it is cooled too much? And somebody speaks Swiss-German nearby?
And that person is red-haired?) since such theories also predict a
too wide range of phenomena (if temperature, language and haircolor
matters for particle experiments, we ought to see a lot of random
things when we do them rather than consistent physics up to 20 TeV
and then *bang* when Dr Rothaarig shows up.)<br>
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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