Here’s a funny test: if many people flip coins to decide whether to have kids, and SSA is true, then the results should be biased toward “don’t have kids”. Bostrom’s book discusses similar scenarios, I think, but I’m still pretty proud of coming up with them independently :-)
Here’s a funny test: if many people flip coins to decide whether to have kids, and SSA is true, then the results should be biased toward “don’t have kids”. Bostrom’s book discusses similar scenarios, I think, but I’m still pretty proud of coming up with them independently :-)
Could you elaborate?
See chapter 9 of Bostrom’s book. His analysis seems a little weird to me, but the descriptions of the scenarios are very nice and clear.