Adam Elga

I want to add one thing about Crazy Town.

And this is in a way echoing something you said about the multiverse, because I think it's really true about self-locating belief too.

Because there are a lot of fanciful examples in this territory, it's tempting to think,

that, ah, you shouldn't be called rational man.

You should be called crazy example man or weird self-locating duplicate man.

And although I'll fess up to my rationality fetish, I actually don't have a weirdo example fetish or a fetish for strange or bizarre views and so on.

Nothing wrong with that.

I think there are great philosophers who are into that.

But I'm actually very cautious and conservative about these things.

And I hate the idea of

being forced into bizarro views by self-locating beliefs.

And it's really that I feel that it's forced upon us.

And to the extent that someone could give me the common sense way out, the way out such that at the end of it, someone can say, you know what?

Turns out all those philosophers, they were wasting their time talking about self-locating belief.

It's just plain vanilla, whatever.

And we can stop talking about all that and just go on with our lives.

I would be a happy man.

It's hard.

I mean, we can, we can get away with, you know, you can get away with it.

If you say just look, here's my solution.