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AMA | August 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Cosmological Constant Problem

The cosmological constant is not supposed to be thought of under the rubric of effective field theory, okay? That doesn't tell you why it's so small, but it tells you that it's not the kind of thing you should think of as being the sum of many different contributions. Sandro Stuckey says, I love the episode with Katie Elliot. During your discussion of the principles of vision reason, I picked up on this statement of yours which resonated with me. How confident are we that when we're reasoning about things that are very different from our universe that we can say things that are not overly tainted by our real world experience? Can you elaborate a bit on that

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