Anyway, this answers one of key questions: whether it is worth working on anthropics or not. I put some time into reading about it (hopefully I get time to pick up Bostrom’s book again at some point), but I got discouraged when I started wondering if the work on logical counterfactuals would make this all irrelevant. Thanks for clarifying this. Anyway, why do you think the second approach is more promising?
Anyway, this answers one of key questions: whether it is worth working on anthropics or not. I put some time into reading about it (hopefully I get time to pick up Bostrom’s book again at some point), but I got discouraged when I started wondering if the work on logical counterfactuals would make this all irrelevant. Thanks for clarifying this. Anyway, why do you think the second approach is more promising?
My thoughts on that are described further here.