And even if you only give 1% credence to the universe being infinite in some way, naive expected value calculation would still imply that this small chance of infinity overwhelms everything else.
To be clear, I’m not really endorsing this logic, and I will write more in my next post about how to compare the values of smaller and bigger universes. But I do think that naive expected value calculation leads to weird places with infinities, so this is a good motivating question for developing better theories.
is this mugging really necessary to the article?
To be clear, I’m not really endorsing this logic, and I will write more in my next post about how to compare the values of smaller and bigger universes. But I do think that naive expected value calculation leads to weird places with infinities, so this is a good motivating question for developing better theories.