On that Wikipedia page, the section “Rebuttals” briefly outlines numerous reasons not to believe it.
Anthropic reasoning is in general extremely weak. It is also much more easy than usual to accidentally double-count evidence, make assumptions without evidence, privilege specific hypotheses, or make other errors of reasoning without the usual means of checking such reasoning.
Was there anything which led you to believe this that I could read? (About the weakness of anthropic reasoning, not about the potential errors humans attempting to use it could make; I agree that those exist, and that they’re a good reason to be cautious and aware of one’s own capability, but I don’t really see them as arguments against the validity of the method when used properly.)
On that Wikipedia page, the section “Rebuttals” briefly outlines numerous reasons not to believe it.
Anthropic reasoning is in general extremely weak. It is also much more easy than usual to accidentally double-count evidence, make assumptions without evidence, privilege specific hypotheses, or make other errors of reasoning without the usual means of checking such reasoning.
I’ll check out that section.
Was there anything which led you to believe this that I could read? (About the weakness of anthropic reasoning, not about the potential errors humans attempting to use it could make; I agree that those exist, and that they’re a good reason to be cautious and aware of one’s own capability, but I don’t really see them as arguments against the validity of the method when used properly.)