kali_fornicationMar 1

big facts

https://lemmy.world/post/43719538

Show threadlime!Mar 1
“believe in wi-fi”
Show threadGrailMar 1
If you don’t believe wi-fi exists, you’d be a fool.
Show threadlime!Mar 1
i don’t believe in wifi, just like i don’t believe in trees. i know they’re there. that requires no belief.
Show threadcynarMar 1

The belief would be that your senses aren’t being actively deceived. Also, that you’re not a Boltzmann brain hallucinating in the void.

I personally believe all the axioms of science apply. It’s still fun to poke at them.

Show threadlime!Mar 1
the atheist says “i will not believe”. the agnostic says “i can not believe”. one is as dogmatic as the beliefs they purport to refute, the other lacks the capacity for dogma, as belief for them is simply not possible.
Show threadcynarMar 1

Belief in a null is a lot more reasonable than belief in something so powerful it can pretend to be a null.

Belief that I am not in a Truman show like environment is a lot more reasonable (without evidence) than belief that I am in a Truman show, and they are doing a perfect job.

That doesn’t mean I don’t try disproving the null hypothesis.

Show threadLainTrainMar 1

I don’t think reasonable is even it for me, it’s just a helpful assumption.

If they are doing a perfect job at a Truman show type situation, there’s nothing you can do, so you might as well assume they’re not and play your role.

Show threadcynar
It’s more reasonable via Occam’s razor (more complexity is less reasonable, when everything else is equal). However it is still just a belief axiom. You have to assume 1 holds.
Mar 1 at 3:17pmWeb
Show threadDigitMar 1
Too many cut themselves on Occam’s razor, incorrectly presuming all else equal.
Show threadcynarMar 1

If things are not all equal, then we can slice off a section of the axiom, and start dissecting it, via science. The axiom only applies if things are exactly equal.

E.g. Gravity wave detectors have found oddities, just above the noise floor. These are likely equipment artifacts. They are also consistent with us being in a simulation, and us touching close to the resolution limit. If true (quite unlikely) then it would prove the axiom false.