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Essays on falsifiability

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Feb 21, 2025ACX

Highlights From The Comments On Tegmark's Mathematical Universe

Scott responds to comments and criticisms of his post about Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and its implications for arguments about God's existence, addressing technical points about Boltzmann brains, simplicity measures, and philosophical objections.

40 min read 6,150 words

Nov 6, 2019SSC

Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science

Scott Alexander argues that non-empirical reasoning, based on principles like simplicity and elegance, is a necessary and legitimate part of scientific practice, even for evaluating seemingly untestable theories.

23 min read 3,505 words

Bayesian reasoning falsifiability multiverse theory