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Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)

The Theory of Anything

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The Unrealistic Universe

Sam made the point about Sam Harris's example being unrealistic and the universe isn't that way. But let me try to now give a more realistic example since I agree Sam's example isn't the best. Imagine something like this, a piece of the sun kicks itself out. It's hurtling towards Earth and it's going to destroy all life on Earth. That would be an interesting and insoluble problem. And if you really think about this in terms of many worlds, this is something that does happen,. Like there's some version of us that started this podcast and part way through we received a alert that we're all going to die because the sun just kicked a piece of itself at us

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