FNC doesn’t say that. What you said is actually more in line with SIA. “Observers with the same experience as I am” is the minimum reference class SIA can use. Treating oneself as randomly selected from them is a way to state SIA. Joe Carlsmith made a series about SIA which touched on the idea of minimal reference class. You can find his posts here, and here.
FNC doesn’t explicitly say anything about selection. It just purposes update the probabilities with the information “someone with such-and-such experience exists in the universe”. The “such-and-such experience” is all the experience I (first-person) have. Doesn’t matter if the experience seems irrelevant to the question or not.
But a plain statement like “someone with such-and-such experience exists in the universe” does not necessitate the probability update as FNC suggests. Same as Couple B’s case, FNC is functioning as if we actively searched for someone with that experience in the universe and successfully found him. So it has assumed a selection process. And it treats the first-person as the outcome of the selection.
FNC doesn’t say that. What you said is actually more in line with SIA. “Observers with the same experience as I am” is the minimum reference class SIA can use. Treating oneself as randomly selected from them is a way to state SIA. Joe Carlsmith made a series about SIA which touched on the idea of minimal reference class. You can find his posts here, and here.
FNC doesn’t explicitly say anything about selection. It just purposes update the probabilities with the information “someone with such-and-such experience exists in the universe”. The “such-and-such experience” is all the experience I (first-person) have. Doesn’t matter if the experience seems irrelevant to the question or not.
But a plain statement like “someone with such-and-such experience exists in the universe” does not necessitate the probability update as FNC suggests. Same as Couple B’s case, FNC is functioning as if we actively searched for someone with that experience in the universe and successfully found him. So it has assumed a selection process. And it treats the first-person as the outcome of the selection.