I’m just incredibly skeptical of attempts to do moral reasoning by invoking exotic metaphysical considerations such as anthropics, even if one is confident that ultimately one will have to do so. Human rationality has enough trouble dealing with science. It’s nice that we seen to be able to do better than that, but THIS MUCH better? REALLY?
I think that there are terribly strong biases towards deciding that “it all adds up to normality” involved here, even when it’s not clear what ‘normality’ means. When one doesn’t decide that, it seems that the tendency is to decide that it all adds up to some cliche, which seems VERY unlikely.
I’m also not at all sure how certain we should be of a big universe, but personally I don’t feel very confident of it. I’d say it’s the way to bet, but not at what odds it remains the way to bet.
I rarely find myself in practical situations where my actions would be different if I had some particular metaphysical belief rather than another, though it does come up and have some influence on e.g. my thoughts on vegetarianism.
I’m just incredibly skeptical of attempts to do moral reasoning by invoking exotic metaphysical considerations such as anthropics, even if one is confident that ultimately one will have to do so. Human rationality has enough trouble dealing with science. It’s nice that we seen to be able to do better than that, but THIS MUCH better? REALLY? I think that there are terribly strong biases towards deciding that “it all adds up to normality” involved here, even when it’s not clear what ‘normality’ means. When one doesn’t decide that, it seems that the tendency is to decide that it all adds up to some cliche, which seems VERY unlikely. I’m also not at all sure how certain we should be of a big universe, but personally I don’t feel very confident of it. I’d say it’s the way to bet, but not at what odds it remains the way to bet. I rarely find myself in practical situations where my actions would be different if I had some particular metaphysical belief rather than another, though it does come up and have some influence on e.g. my thoughts on vegetarianism.