Thread:The real cal howard/@comment-24503208-20180412182023/@comment-24503208-20180419222159

Hmm I want to rebut Aeyu's words back in the "Let's talk about the Chaos God" thread, but since Velox seems inactive at the moment. Can you do this for me, Cal? I recall I owned you one or something (Could be wrong since I don't remember much) and now it is time to repay the favor by helping me.

http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:1590130

My reply: "@Aeyu [This just in from Max Tegmark himself!]

Thanks Massimo for the fun conversation during the interview and for raising these important questions! They are excellent ones, and a key reason why I spent three years writing this book is because I wanted to make sure to finally answer them all properly. Needless to say, I couldn't do justice to them in our short interview, so I'm very much look forward to hear what you think about my detailed answers in chapters 6, 10, 11 and 12. I think you'll find that our viewpoints are closer than your post suggest - for example, your statement "Tegmark assigns lower weights to more complex structures" is not something you'll find in the book. Rather, I describe how the measure problem is a terrible embarrassment for modern cosmology (regardless of whether the MUH is true or not) that we need to solve, and that our untested assumption that truly infinite things exist in nature are my prime suspect: we've never measured anything to better than 17 decimal places, have only 10^89 particles in our universe, and manage to do all our publishable physics simulations with computers that have finite resources, so even though my physics courses at MIT use infinity as a convenient tool, I respectfully object to your "OPS" argument that we somehow have experimental evidence for infinity in physics. Without infinity, there are, as you say, no Gödel issues in our physics."

He literally say this to Massimo Pigliucci."