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This is such a weird comment. It's like an attempt to trivialize the article by stating something completely nontrivial with a lot of confidence.
by zero-sharp 2y ago
This is such a weird comment. It's like an attempt to trivialize the article by stating something completely nontrivial with a lot of confidence.
- lxgr 2y agoIt's the same feeling I had after reading the article, though, and I'm pretty familiar with anthropic reasoning. The anthropic principle is the most plausible answer we have to the honestly quite reasonable question of "if all of these things are so unlikely, why did they still all happen?", so why not emphasize it more? The idea is also pretty powerful in ordinary/non-metaphysical contexts in the form of survivorship bias, and something useful to keep in mind whenever listening to somebody successful post-hoc explaining how all of their conscious past decisions inevitably led them to where they are.
- zero-sharp 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=42176047&goto=item%3Fid%3D42173316%2342176047 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=42176047&goto=item%3Fi...