The preoccupation with arguing over base ontological commitments reminds me of the *existential detectives* and their nemesis in the movie *I <3 Huckabees*. Will demanding that the universe is determined, or almost as random as can be, or simulatable move any other conjectured model forward? I suspect that it has the effect of putting the discussion in a holding pattern. In each case, we are making unknown claims as to what the universe is, or at best wagering as to what we feel the universe will have turned out to be in some obnoxiously absolute way. Neutered from a motivating investigation and the development of a model, we may as well exclaim the names of numbers at one another.
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