It lies somewhere between philosophy and physics, essentially functioning as an informal critique of physics models that make Boltzmann brains *too probable*, and thus end up being kinda-sorta incompatible with any attempt to understand the objective reality. If you're a Boltzmann brain, you're hallucinating the laws of physics too!
I just thought it would be funny to transpose it to the setting of corporate performance reviews.
The underlying concept is known as the Boltzmann brain, and the Wikipedia entry for it is about 10x as long as it ought to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
It lies somewhere between philosophy and physics, essentially functioning as an informal critique of physics models that make Boltzmann brains *too probable*, and thus end up being kinda-sorta incompatible with any attempt to understand the objective reality. If you're a Boltzmann brain, you're hallucinating the laws of physics too!
I just thought it would be funny to transpose it to the setting of corporate performance reviews.
Sounds like a pretty typical 1:1 with my CTO.