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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Thirder Position in Cosmology

The observer first approach in cosmology, the self indicating assumption was, assume we are typical in the set of all observers in all different univer es. The thirder position is basically saying, i give even, even though my prior probability for the head for the tails, for the coin coming up heads or tails, was 50 50. So what this should be teaching us is we need to think about it. This is not an obvious set of things to do at all. Ok, now it's goig to get worse. I'm just going to keep digging holes for us. Cuse remember, my goal here t tell ither once and for all final answer,. but rather

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