Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)
by ppod on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:16AM
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I totally agree with this point, but there is an unavoidable anthropic counterargument, which is for the people who do in fact live in some kind of end times, this is exactly how it will seem to them too. We can't just rely on induction, you still have to at least attempt the deductive due diligence.
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> We can't just rely on induction, you still have to at least attempt the deductive due diligence.
Thank you.
This:
> Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world.
> Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that.
...isn't a logical argument against the (fictional) fact that Arthur's home planet did explode.