June 11, 2013

I want to start the Max Tegmark Fanclub

Max Tegmark gave a talk here in Oxford on "The Future of Life, a Cosmic Perspective":

Great fun! And a lot of adverts for FHI.

I like his uniform logarithmic prior argument against contactable alien civilizations. Not sure if I buy it - uninformative priors are always iffy - but it is neat.

Posted by Anders3 at June 11, 2013 09:25 PM
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