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Puzzles of Anthropic Reasoning Resolved Using Full Non-indexical Conditioning

Book • 1995
This paper addresses puzzles in anthropic reasoning by applying full non-indexical conditioning, which involves conditioning beliefs on all available evidence rather than just membership in a reference class.

It provides a simpler approach to anthropic reasoning, avoiding the arbitrariness and paradoxes associated with the Self-Sampling Assumption (SSA).

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Mentioned by Sean Carroll as a paper proposing fully non-indexical conditioning for anthropic reasoning.
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