Oct 7, 2026 · 48 min · 13 segments
Can the existence of this extraordinary world really be explained without God, and what does that mean for how we give? JD explores this with…
Yeah.
So isn't it possible there's other objectively special things that we don't have in this world? We just happen to not have it in this world.
And like, is it possible there's like thousands or millions of other objectively special things we happen to not have? And so maybe, you know, We're not that extraordinary in this
Yeah, so if it turned out that most of the worlds had something really, really cool that's equivalent to the coolness of our world, then that would undermine the argument.
I think about a world where there's just a few particles floating in space far from each other and no intricate arrangements, nothing interesting happening.
Unless there's just some special stuff that we're just totally in the dark about.
So I think you have to be pretty skeptical about our ability to know like what kinds of things are special in order to say, yeah, yeah, there's nothing.
Yeah.
So I'm hoping to move from like more theoretical and more practical.
So still on the pretty theoretical front.
Sure.
Yeah.
You talk about, you talk in some of your papers.
Actually, I want to ask you a fun question.
This is something I love to ask philosophers, which is what's the craziest thing that you have some plausible view of? Like you have some non-trivial credence.
You think there's some chance of it being true.
What's the craziest thing? Oh, good.
Yeah.
For the average person.
I don't, maybe I can reframe that.
Yeah.
So isn't it possible there's other objectively special things that we don't have in this world? We just happen to not have it in this world.
And like, is it possible there's like thousands or millions of other objectively special things we happen to not have? And so maybe, you know, We're not that extraordinary in this
Yeah, so if it turned out that most of the worlds had something really, really cool that's equivalent to the coolness of our world, then that would undermine the argument.
I think about a world where there's just a few particles floating in space far from each other and no intricate arrangements, nothing interesting happening.
Unless there's just some special stuff that we're just totally in the dark about.
So I think you have to be pretty skeptical about our ability to know like what kinds of things are special in order to say, yeah, yeah, there's nothing.
Yeah.
So I'm hoping to move from like more theoretical and more practical.
So still on the pretty theoretical front.
Sure.
Yeah.
You talk about, you talk in some of your papers.
Actually, I want to ask you a fun question.
This is something I love to ask philosophers, which is what's the craziest thing that you have some plausible view of? Like you have some non-trivial credence.
You think there's some chance of it being true.
What's the craziest thing? Oh, good.
Yeah.
For the average person.
I don't, maybe I can reframe that.
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