The legendary Scott Alexander recently posted an article promoting Max Tegmark’s mathematical universe hypothesis as a salvo in favor of atheism in the ongoing theism/atheism debate. While I am skeptical of theism myself, I have a couple problems with the mathematical universe hypothesis that lead me to find it unconvincing,...
This is a blog post I recently made about what tiling the universe with hedonium (which I believe is morally entailed by a belief in hedonic utilitarianism) would actually involve in practice. It's easy to just say "make as much hedonium as possible," but what is hedonium, anyways, and how...
The legendary Scott Alexander recently posted an article promoting Max Tegmark’s mathematical universe hypothesis as a salvo in favor of atheism in the ongoing theism/atheism debate. While I am skeptical of theism myself, I have a couple problems with the mathematical universe hypothesis that lead me to find it unconvincing, which I hope to lay out in this post. These arguments are based on our immediate, subjective experience of existing in whatever reality we exist in, and as a result I believe they are fairly convincing arguments as to the nature of that reality.
My first point of contention with the mathematical universe hypothesis is the fact that we have a subjective experience... (read 802 more words →)
This is a blog post I recently made about what tiling the universe with hedonium (which I believe is morally entailed by a belief in hedonic utilitarianism) would actually involve in practice. It's easy to just say "make as much hedonium as possible," but what is hedonium, anyways, and how would you actually go about making it? I hope you find it interesting, just follow the link to read the full post if you're interested in what the prerequisites for converting the universe into hedonium actually are.