Copies are involved in DA. To use anthropics, you have to “update on your position on your reference class” (or some similar construction). At that very moment, just before you update, you can be any person at all—if not, you can’t update. You can be anyone equally.
(of course, nobody really “updates” that way, because people first realise who they are, then long after that learn about the DA. But if SSA people are allowed to “update” like that, I’m allowed to look at the hypothetical before such an update)
“I’m allowed to look at the hypothetical before such an update”
In the Doomsday argument as I understand it, you are allowed to do that. Nothing about our present knowledge gives any strong suggestion that human race will last millions of years.
Copies are involved in DA. To use anthropics, you have to “update on your position on your reference class” (or some similar construction). At that very moment, just before you update, you can be any person at all—if not, you can’t update. You can be anyone equally.
(of course, nobody really “updates” that way, because people first realise who they are, then long after that learn about the DA. But if SSA people are allowed to “update” like that, I’m allowed to look at the hypothetical before such an update)
“I’m allowed to look at the hypothetical before such an update”
In the Doomsday argument as I understand it, you are allowed to do that. Nothing about our present knowledge gives any strong suggestion that human race will last millions of years.