having read half the Wikipedia article, it's not clear to me why Boltzmann brains are a thing people consider seriously

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ok, the summary in the intro is misleading: suggests that the scenario in the thought experiment indicates something true about the universe rather than being an absurd consequence of the theory underlying

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