Given that full-scale nuclear war would either destroy the world or vastly reduce the number of living people, Petrov, Arkhipov, and all the other “heroic officer makes unlikely decision to avert nuclear war” stories Recovering Irrationalist describes above make a more convincing test case for the anthropic principle than an LHC breakdown or two.
Given that full-scale nuclear war would either destroy the world or vastly reduce the number of living people, Petrov, Arkhipov, and all the other “heroic officer makes unlikely decision to avert nuclear war” stories Recovering Irrationalist describes above make a more convincing test case for the anthropic principle than an LHC breakdown or two.