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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is It Ok to Predict Universes With Lots of Observers?
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A i think maybe it is ok to favor universes with lots of observers and therefore have a larger probability of predicting me. If you're considering a bunch of universes with effectively an infinite number of observers, it doesn't matter. But once the number of observers becomes so large that people like you are almost inevitable, i don't give an extra boost to creating a billion versions of you versus creating one version of you. In either case, the probability of the theory predicting the existence of you is of order one. So the the sto large universes saturates at some value in this way of doing things? I do not know. Is it the right way of doing thing? I need to think about
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