I don’t mean to pick on you specifically, but the genre of vague “anthropic filter!” speculations whenever anything is said to be possibly linked even slightly to catastrophe needs to be dialed back on LW. Such speculations almost never a) designate a definite theoretical framework on which that makes sense b) make any serious effort to show a non-negligible odds ratio (e.g. more than 1%) on any (even implausible) account of anthropic reasoning.
Rolf,
I don’t mean to pick on you specifically, but the genre of vague “anthropic filter!” speculations whenever anything is said to be possibly linked even slightly to catastrophe needs to be dialed back on LW. Such speculations almost never a) designate a definite theoretical framework on which that makes sense b) make any serious effort to show a non-negligible odds ratio (e.g. more than 1%) on any (even implausible) account of anthropic reasoning.
However, they do invite a lot of nonsense.