In general I don’t think anthropic reasoning like this holds any substance. We experience what we experience, and condition on that in forming models about what it is and where we are in it.
We don’t get to make millions of bits of observations about being a human in a technological society, use those observations to extrapolate the possibility of supergalactic multitudes of consciousness, and then express surprise at a pathetic few dozen bits of improbability of not being one of those multitudes. We already used those bits (and a great many more!) in forming our model in the first place.
In general I don’t think anthropic reasoning like this holds any substance. We experience what we experience, and condition on that in forming models about what it is and where we are in it.
We don’t get to make millions of bits of observations about being a human in a technological society, use those observations to extrapolate the possibility of supergalactic multitudes of consciousness, and then express surprise at a pathetic few dozen bits of improbability of not being one of those multitudes. We already used those bits (and a great many more!) in forming our model in the first place.