Very interesting. It sounds like your “third person view from nowhere” vs the “first person view from somewhere” is very similar to something I was thinking about recently. I called them “objectively distinct situations” in contrast with “subjectively distinct situations”. My view is that most of the anthropic arguments that “feel wrong” to me are built on trying to make me assign equal probability to all subjectively distinct scenarios, rather than objective ones. eg. A replication machine makes it so there are two of me, then “I” could be either of them, leaving two subjectively distinct cases, even if on the object level there is actual no distinction between “me” being clone A or clone B. [1]
I am very sceptical of this ADT. If you think the time/place you have ended up is unusually important I think that is more likely explained by something like “people decide what is important based on what is going on around them”.
Very interesting. It sounds like your “third person view from nowhere” vs the “first person view from somewhere” is very similar to something I was thinking about recently. I called them “objectively distinct situations” in contrast with “subjectively distinct situations”. My view is that most of the anthropic arguments that “feel wrong” to me are built on trying to make me assign equal probability to all subjectively distinct scenarios, rather than objective ones. eg. A replication machine makes it so there are two of me, then “I” could be either of them, leaving two subjectively distinct cases, even if on the object level there is actual no distinction between “me” being clone A or clone B. [1]
I am very sceptical of this ADT. If you think the time/place you have ended up is unusually important I think that is more likely explained by something like “people decide what is important based on what is going on around them”.
[1] My thoughts are here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v9mdyNBfEE8tsTNLb/subjective-questions-require-subjective-information