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What kind of person is in the top right?

17.10.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your argument is that dogs bred for hunting animals can't distinguish between animals and small humans. Are you walking that back now?

15.10.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Most types of terriers and hounds

15.10.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So then by this logic, all hunting breeds must have the same innate desire to hurt children, right?

15.10.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Are pitbulls bred to kill children?

14.10.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How precisely are they bred more dangerous than they "need" to be?

14.10.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Given that most small dogs are physically incapable of killing humans, it's not surprising that the most common large dog is also responsible for the most human deaths. And that's without considering other confounding factors like abuse, neglect, lack of training, etc

14.10.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I read up as far as I could and I saw no evidence given that pitbulls are inherently more likely to attack children.
Given how loosely "pitbull" is defined, they make a large majority of all large dogs.

14.10.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pulling out my lyfe scanner

27.07.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I care only in the sense that we should make it much faster to become citizens

08.06.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ummm everyone is naming known conspiracy theorist characters in real world settings so that's not really fun. I'm going to go with Galadriel. She'd be like no no eat this leaf that's the tears of an ancient hero

02.06.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeeeeaaaahhhhhhhhh

02.06.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lyfe???

28.05.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why is it that only universes with regular observers can be infinite? Why wouldn't we have a universe that has the same infinite geometry but with a higher initial entropy? Or is this just the "other" BB problem you mentioned before?

23.05.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For example, I don't think Trump is a Christian even if he claims to be.

23.05.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

True but I'd argue that being Christian should at least involve a little bit of actually following Jesus' teachings. Like, you know, the whole bit about loving others, caring for the vulnerable, etc. if someone constantly flouts that then I can understand if some people question the label

23.05.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I still don't understand how to go from "it appears infinite for a given observers" (subjective) to "it is infinite" (objective) but for the sake of argument, why is it that BB universes must be finite?

19.05.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Time and space trading off to make the universe appear to be infinite for a given observer does not entail an actually infinite amount of observers

19.05.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Taking this approach, the only way to solve BB problem is to somehow show that *only* natural universes are infinitely large AND that they don't flucutate once it reaches equilibrium. (3/3)

19.05.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A boltzmann bubble is just a local region of order within a surrounding area of disorder. In an infinitely large universe with high entropy, there would be an infinite amount of boltzmann bubbles of various size, with the smaller ones being more numerous. (2/3)

19.05.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Guth describes our universe as appearing to be unbounded and possibly indefinitely expanding, but I don't think he suggests our universe is actually infinite in extent. However, even if there are somehow infinite ROs, that would likely imply infinite BBs as well. (1/3)

19.05.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm also not a cosmology expert, but it doesn't seem like Guth's arguments provide for such a multiverse

19.05.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Setting aside the nuances with measuring over infinities, the crux of the problem is the number of BBs vs ROs in your multiverse. It seems the only solution is to get a multiverse that somehow produces a huge number of low-entropy "natural" universes AND one that doesn't fluctuate out of equilibrium

19.05.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right, the reason that BBs are a problem is that everything from a single brain with false memories to an entire galaxy but with deceptive external photons can produce the exact same observations as a natural universe.

19.05.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah ok I agree with that. So then this leads back to Guth's apparent response to this. Positing some sort of selection effect for universe size doesn't seem to solve the Boltzmann problem in its entirety.

19.05.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In this discussion are they just assuming that there is in fact a Hubble volume and they aren't considering the possibility of a universe with illusory order?

19.05.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I don't understand Penrose's view on the BB problem. It's not just entire Hubble volumes that we are worried about forming through random fluctuation. It's any size of universe between the Hubble volume and one that only contains a single brain.

19.05.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, for any given universe that lasts forever or sufficiently long enough, the high entropy state that spontaneously produces BBs is inevitable. So integrated over enough time, most universes contain many more BBs than ROs

19.05.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought the primary issue was the surprisingly low initial entropy of our universe. I can see how universe size is factor to consider, but regardless of size, a universe that starts out with non-low entropy is much more likely to create boltzmann brains (BB) instead of regular observers (RO)

19.05.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right, that's the problem as I understand it. It wasn't clear to me that Guths response at min 35 of the video directly addresses this issue.

19.05.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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