Yes—obsessed is the right word. The multiverse shows up in 427 mentions across 171 files. It’s not a side interest; it’s a load-bearing pillar of the entire vault’s worldview.
But it’s not the physics multiverse that most people write about. The unique insight in this vault is this:
The multiverse as the foundation of economics
The most original thread isn’t “many-worlds is cool”—it’s the claim that the multiverse logically implies Austrian economics. The argument chain goes roughly:
- The multiverse exists (David Deutsch/Everett quantum physics)
- The multiverse implies explanatory knowledge—[[2-1a6c4c We can explain things because we are multiversal objects. The multiverse implies explanatory knowledge.|we can explain things because we are multiversal objects]]
- The multiverse implies action—if you could access the whole multiverse, you’d have already performed every possible action and would no longer act. The laws of physics forbid this, so humans must choose.
- Choosing = economizing—“Economizing is the act of choosing which problem to solve first.” The concept of cost must evoke the multiverse—what could have been otherwise.
- The multiverse implies money—money exists because the future is uncertain (implied by the multiverse). Money’s fungibility mirrors the fungibility of universes themselves. “The topology of mind and money is probably the same—humans replicated themselves in money.”
- Refuting the multiverse would refute praxeology—[[13-1a0a Refuting the existence of the multiverse will refute praxeology|Deutsch’s epistemology, the Turing principle, evolution, and the multiverse cement]] Mises and Rothbard’s arguments. These theories precede and ground economics.
What makes this unusual
Most multiverse writing is either pop-science (“what if there’s another you?”) or pure physics. This vault does something different: it treats the multiverse not as a curiosity but as the metaphysical ground for subjective value theory, time preference, and money itself. The Rothbard note connecting the evenly rotating economy’s mathematical equations to “disregarding the multiverse” is a particularly sharp original observation.
The vault also connects it to a theory of money that leads to a specific conclusion: that truly “multiversal” money must be fungible, digital, and quantum-resistant—pointing at shielded Zcash as the logical endpoint.
So it’s not just multiverse-obsessed—it’s building a unified theory where physics (Deutsch), epistemology (fallibilism), and economics (Mises/Rothbard) are all consequences of the same underlying reality.
Related:
- Economics of God
- The Fabric of Reality Implies the Beginning of Infinity
- 10-2e4 Other times (in ‘our universe’) are just special cases of other universes. There is no demarcation between other times and other universes in the multiverse.
- 13-1a3b The subjective value theory persists because of the multiverse—because we are fallible