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Is he cheating on just me or with the Second Law of Thermodynamics? (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (18 children)

There reason there is something instead of nothing is survivorship bias. Since nothing is nothing, including no time, there will ALWAYS be something because nothing can't exist outside of something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This particular flavour of survivorship bias is also called the anthropic principle

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