https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0707.4169/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12153484urn:hackerpapers:mention:0707.4169:12153484Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:07:05 GMT<p>Maybe. It&#x27;s highly contested. One popular argument against that claim (which I agree sounds reasonable on its face) is that it turns out to allow us to draw some strong conclusions about the universe which, intuitively, should not be possible to conclude from our armchair (the &quot;presumptuous philosopher&quot;). In the philosophy literature, this often is framed in terms of a choice between the self-indication assumption or the self-sampling assumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sampling_assumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-indication_assumption The canonical reference on this is…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0707.4169/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-th