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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

There are tiny little creatures living on your face that poop on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

and Bostrom's simulation hypothesis and Pascal's wager, all subject to serious validity threats. All of these thought experiments are unfalsifiable. They can all be explained with different theories. They all rely on circular reasoning. They all anthropomorphize entities that maybe don't resemble humans at all. They all fall for the mind projection fallacy. They all are prey to selection bias, because they cherry-pick scenarios among countless alternatives.

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