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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Self Sampling Assumption
If you have a cosmological scenario with more observers in it, then you should think that that scenario is more likely to produce an observer like you. That's the self sampling assumption. The other approach, the self indication assumption, is what i call the observer first approach. It's to say, assume youre typical within the set of all observers. And effectively, id hey, need to do some extra work to make that work at a quantitative level. But you can do it. You can run the numbers.
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