We’re not trying to narrow our confidence intervals on a cosmic filter by equating it to an island filter. Rather, using anthropic reasoning seems sketchy, so we seek out other problems using anthropic reasoning to see if the anthropic principle holds up. It’s the anthropic principle itself we’re analyzing here, hence the title of the post, “An empirical test of anthropic principle.”
I prefer to leave my confidence intervals very wide (+/-100%) than to inappropriately reduce the problem to one where “our intuition works better.”
I guess I don’t like anthropic reasoning in general.
We’re not trying to narrow our confidence intervals on a cosmic filter by equating it to an island filter. Rather, using anthropic reasoning seems sketchy, so we seek out other problems using anthropic reasoning to see if the anthropic principle holds up. It’s the anthropic principle itself we’re analyzing here, hence the title of the post, “An empirical test of anthropic principle.”
Yes, that is exactly what I want to do.