Adam Brown

including the fact that our life seems to be incredibly hospitable for complexity and interestingness and the possibility of intelligent life.

Which is an interesting fact.

Everything is just tuned just so that chemistry is possible.

And perhaps in most places you would throw the dart in possibility space.

Chemistry would be impossible.

The universe as we look around us is incredibly rich.

There's structure at the scale of viruses all the way to structure at the scale of galaxies.

There's interesting structure at all levels.

This is a very interesting fact.

Now, some people think that

actually interesting structure is a very generic property.

And if we threw a dart somewhere in possibility space, there would be interesting structure, no matter where it hit.

Maybe it wouldn't look like ours, but there'd be some different structure.

But really, if you look at the laws of physics, it does seem like they're very well attuned for life.

So in your scenario, where there's an intelligent creator, then they would probably be, you'd have to say they'd optimized for that.

It's also the case that you can imagine explanations

for why it's so well tuned for life that don't involve a intelligent creator.

Well, you suggested one with an intelligent creator, but yeah, the usual one that people like to talk about is the anthropic principle.

I think it's going to depend on what quantity you're asking me about.

Yeah.