Sean Carroll
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4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 6d ago
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And if I have a multiple
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multiverse with different values of the cosmological constant everywhere, I have no reason to put a small prior on that, there's no fine tuning there.
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Like it's just random stuff happening and still allows for the existence of life.
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So you have to take the priors into consideration when you do this sort of comparison.
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The other thing is, um there is something which I I'm not sure I don't think it is in Neil's original paper, but it is in the paper that Isaac Wilkins and I are working on ourselves, which is sort of a saturation effect, um, where we don't ask we don't
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update your priors by how many observers are like you.
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We update our priors by the probability there would be at least one.
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Observer like you in this universe.
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So if your universe is relatively tiny, that does get penalized compared to a universe which is very big and has more places for you for observers to appear.
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That is something that we accept, and we actually think that that is a perfectly reasonable way to go.
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There's something called the presumptuous philosopher problem in anthropic reasoning, which the traditional
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saturation, which just puts the prior proportional to the number of observers like you
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That has the huge problem that there's there's an infinite preference for infinitely big universes, right?
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Even if the universe is big enough but finite, big enough there should be many, many observers like you.
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That's nothing compared to the infinite number of observers like you in an infinitely big universe.
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So you just say, without looking out the window, you go, all right, I know I'm not in the finite-sized universe.
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I have to be in the infinite-sized one.
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And that seems a little bit presumptuous, right?
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So we don't want that to happen.
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So, but I do think that if there's two universes with um different non-zero but non-one probabilities of getting at least.
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