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The Anthropic Principle is the most ridiculous thing I have seen produced by real grown-up scientists.

It's fascinating in a train-wreck way to watch geeks reinvent wheels. Clearly there wasn't any need to stay awake during Philosophy 10, much less do any reading on the subject later on when they got big ideas about the place of humanity in the universe.

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I can't remember who it was (John Horgan?) who observed that scientists are generally pretty good at doing science and generally pretty bad at thinking about it all. It's an odd situation.