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Congratulations! You have arrived. Only someone who has truly overcome all human bias could be blind to—and even a bit exasperated by—why we care more about social science.

Hint: It’s common sense, but scientists can explain it too.

Or are you feigning dismay for rhetorical purposes and maybe a tad of status signaling? Same as if I were to express dismay at how little people care about “important,” “deep” contemporary art.

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We don't know know how to experimentally test ANY elements of it. I read Carroll's book, looking carefully for any sort of way of testing, even in principle, his multiverse explanation of the arrow of time, and found nothing. This is the same problem shared by most multiverse explanations of "deep questions" in physics. There are some multiverse models that, at least in principle make some sort of prediction, perhaps of a statistical nature. In those cases you need to look more deeply at whether the model can really predict anything.

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