If we take the third-person view, there is no update until I am over 120 years old. This approach is more robust as it ignores differences between perspectives and is thus more compatible with Aumann’s theorem: insiders and outsiders will have the same conclusion. Imagine that there are two worlds: 1: 10 billion people live there; 2: 10 trillion people live there. Now we get information that there is a person from one of them who has a survival chance of 1 in a million (but no information on how he was selected). This does not help choose between worlds as such people are present in both worlds. Next, we get information that there is a person, who has a 1 in a trillion chance to survive. Such a person has less than 0.01 chance to exist in the first world, but there are around 8 such people in the second world. (The person, again, is not randomly selected – we just know that she exists.) In that case, the second world is around 100 times more probable to be real. In the Earth case, it would mean that 1000 more variants of Earth are actually existing, which could be best explained by MWI (but alien worlds may also count).
If we take the third-person view, there is no update until I am over 120 years old. This approach is more robust as it ignores differences between perspectives and is thus more compatible with Aumann’s theorem: insiders and outsiders will have the same conclusion.
Imagine that there are two worlds:
1: 10 billion people live there;
2: 10 trillion people live there.
Now we get information that there is a person from one of them who has a survival chance of 1 in a million (but no information on how he was selected). This does not help choose between worlds as such people are present in both worlds.
Next, we get information that there is a person, who has a 1 in a trillion chance to survive. Such a person has less than 0.01 chance to exist in the first world, but there are around 8 such people in the second world. (The person, again, is not randomly selected – we just know that she exists.) In that case, the second world is around 100 times more probable to be real.
In the Earth case, it would mean that 1000 more variants of Earth are actually existing, which could be best explained by MWI (but alien worlds may also count).