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[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the hypothesis was supposed to have a benefit

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No? What is a hypothesis for then if not benefitting our understanding of the world?

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Ohhhh right, you meant in that way. In that way absolutey yeah. Well depending on one's position on the AP anyhow 😄 Partially it sort of is a truism (although I'd argue that the "fine tuning problem" trips up a lot of people and the AP doesn't seem to be obvious to everybody) and more of a philosophical thing than necessarily just straight-up physics, but I think there's interesting points there. I'm not very good at explaining the general principle so it might sound dumber than it is, and there's a lot of different versions of it as well