I think the validity of Dust Theory and Big World scenarios depends on how much probability they assign to worlds like ours. For now we don’t have a good estimate of that probability. Egan assumes that it should be low, but I don’t know how to check that.
I think the validity of Dust Theory and Big World scenarios depends on how much probability they assign to worlds like ours. For now we don’t have a good estimate of that probability. Egan assumes that it should be low, but I don’t know how to check that.