This is one of the few times where I’ve seen a post involving anthropic reasoning, and not come away with the general impression that one-of (myself, the subject itself) is hopelessly confused on some fundamental point. So kudos for that.
Thanks! I honestly think it actually tends to get all more mind-screwey than needed to be because it always ends up mixed up with all these grand concepts involving death, counterfactual existence and so on. That’s why I wanted to really strip it of all those connotations and keep it super mundane.
This is one of the few times where I’ve seen a post involving anthropic reasoning, and not come away with the general impression that one-of (myself, the subject itself) is hopelessly confused on some fundamental point. So kudos for that.
In astrophysics they often use expression “observation-selection effect” and it is more clear.
Thanks! I honestly think it actually tends to get all more mind-screwey than needed to be because it always ends up mixed up with all these grand concepts involving death, counterfactual existence and so on. That’s why I wanted to really strip it of all those connotations and keep it super mundane.