Eric Chen says in your conversation with David Wallace, you two seem to disagree as to the best way of formulating the past hypothesis. What does a micro state with many crazy correlations actually mean and look like? I feel like I've listed a whole bunch of questions in a row to which the answer is I'm not sure or I'm not an expert or I don't know. It's very possible I did and I misspoke or changed my mind. The usual way to think about it following David Albert's book, Time and Chance from the year 2000, is to separate out two different hypotheses.
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