Cross-check: Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages?.

I kind of like the author’s approach to this not-so-plausible sort of scientific speculation. Carl Sagan famously drew a line between the scientifically plausible and implausible sorts of speculations. There is nothing wrong in theorizing about other universes, but it’s a little far-fetching to go beyond what can ever be empirically supported/disproven, in other words dogmatic. This brings us to the question could there ever be a theory of multiverse? To which I must answer, yes but it should have the same scientific standard as any other cosmological theory.

That is to say, we should still seek an empirical basis for whatever can be hypothesized about alternate universes. A cosmological theory may indeed posit portions of a multi-verse that may lie out of our means of direct observation, but we still need a rather extraordinarily convincing kind of justification for such an extraordinary hypothesis.

Cross-check: Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages?
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Eray Özkural has obtained his PhD in computer engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara. He has a deep and long-running interest in human-level AI. His name appears in the acknowledgements of Marvin Minsky's The Emotion Machine. He has collaborated briefly with the founder of algorithmic information theory Ray Solomonoff, and in response to a challenge he posed, invented Heuristic Algorithmic Memory, which is a long-term memory design for general-purpose machine learning. Some other researchers have been inspired by HAM and call the approach "Bayesian Program Learning". He has designed a next-generation general-purpose machine learning architecture. He is the recipient of 2015 Kurzweil Best AGI Idea Award for his theoretical contributions to universal induction. He has previously invented an FPGA virtualization scheme for Global Supercomputing, Inc. which was internationally patented. He has also proposed a cryptocurrency called Cypher, and an energy based currency which can drive green energy proliferation. You may find his blog at http://log.examachine.net and some of his free software projects at https://github.com/examachine/.

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