William Gillis 🏴Feb 13, 2023

One argument for Occam's razor in metaphysical matters that I've always suspected is roughly true is that once you start adding unnecessary undetectable epicycles to describe the content of the world, such arbitrarily more complex theories cancel each other out (at least at high complexity).

Anyway, it just occurred to me that the theist cosmological argument has an equal in a cosmological argument for an anti-god of *infinitesimal* rather than infinite capacity, etc.

Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴Feb 13, 2023

The argument is basically this: what could bridge the gap between non-existence and existence? Something of infinitesimal existence.

Indeed there are reasons to take this hypothesis more seriously than the "god" hypothesis. Consider: the existence of an infinitely capable, infinitely existing god doesn't really engage with the question of "why is there something rather than nothing?"

Whereas the "anti-god" hypothesis at least answers it!

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@rechelon I think Occam’s razor is just our experience of the developers reducing complexity in the simulation enough to get the refresh rate down below the Planck time in time to ship the product.
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