Fine Tuning in the Multiverse

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i'm under the impression that all we need are string theory and inflation, and we end up with universes with a variety of physical laws. We don't need some set of laws for the multi verse that determine how many and what sort of universes we get. Partical physicists who have no interest in fine tuning in the sense of design or god or whatever, they make up probabili distributions for no good reason. And this is one of the reasons why we need better philosophy here,. These physicists and these theologians are just making s up, and we should be better than that.

Welcome to the July 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic.

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