This was really interesting. I’ve thought of this comment on-and-off for the last month.
You raised an interesting reason for thinking that transhumans would have high anthropic measure. But if you have a reference-class based anthropic theory, couldn’t transhumans have a lot of anthropic measure, but not be in our reference class (that is, for SSA, we shouldn’t reason as if we were selected from a class containing all humans and transhumans)?
Even if we think that the reference class should contain transhumans, do we have positive reasons for thinking that it should contain organisations?
One thought is that you might reject reference classes in anthropic reasoning (even under SSA). Is that the case?
This was really interesting. I’ve thought of this comment on-and-off for the last month.
You raised an interesting reason for thinking that transhumans would have high anthropic measure. But if you have a reference-class based anthropic theory, couldn’t transhumans have a lot of anthropic measure, but not be in our reference class (that is, for SSA, we shouldn’t reason as if we were selected from a class containing all humans and transhumans)?
Even if we think that the reference class should contain transhumans, do we have positive reasons for thinking that it should contain organisations?
One thought is that you might reject reference classes in anthropic reasoning (even under SSA). Is that the case?