If density/population size is so important, you may not like the conclusions you end up with! In particular, you probably end up concluding that this whole world is a simulation run on a different substrate, and that different substrate is infinite in extent and also extremely densely packed with life. I think...
SSA vs. SIA: I don’t have a favorite link, sorry. It’s been a while since I thought about this stuff. I remember liking Katja Grace’s posts on the subject, and Bostrom’s Anthropic Bias. Plus googling and the philosophy literature should work pretty well. Also some Stuart Armstrong posts but that’s more advanced.
Yeah, thinking about grabby aliens is the thing I need to know the probability number for. :)
If density/population size is so important, you may not like the conclusions you end up with! In particular, you probably end up concluding that this whole world is a simulation run on a different substrate, and that different substrate is infinite in extent and also extremely densely packed with life. I think...
SSA vs. SIA: I don’t have a favorite link, sorry. It’s been a while since I thought about this stuff. I remember liking Katja Grace’s posts on the subject, and Bostrom’s Anthropic Bias. Plus googling and the philosophy literature should work pretty well. Also some Stuart Armstrong posts but that’s more advanced.
Yeah, thinking about grabby aliens is the thing I need to know the probability number for. :)