David Wallace
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I got involved in various questions in decision theory off the back of...
The work I was doing, The Ever Interpretation, and I have some level of interest in those questions, even outside their many worlds context.
I've done a little bit of published work in those areas.
I'm sort of on the edge of having research interest in philosophy of mind, though again, they sort of flow into my physics and structural realism interests.
Goodness.
I mean, I think there's an admirable intellectual honesty in recognizing...
how severely difficult various moves are going to be and not kind of being in denial to that and taking entirely seriously the physics problems there while still having the courage of one's convictions to say, yes, this is extremely difficult work, but nonetheless it has to be done because the arguments for it are compelling.
It's weird, it's alien, super unintuitive, but the systems physicists study are really simple systems.
There's a really widespread misconception that physics is complicated.
there's a bunch of things I could try, but
Let's try this.
Um
There's a really wide misconfed misconception that physics is complicated.
Uh
And physics is in a certain sense very simple compared to other sciences.
It's weird, it's alien, super unintuitive, sometimes really expensive to do experiments in, but the systems physicists study are really simple systems.
If you compare how complex the nucleus of an atom or even a crystal is compared to a living thing.
or the human brain or the American economy.
No, those are complicated systems.
I'm scared of complicated systems.
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