There are strained applications of anthropics, like the doomsday argument. “What happened here might happen elsewhere” is much more innocuous.
There are some more practical and harmless applications as well. In Nick Bostrom’s Anthropic Bias, for example, there is an application of the Self-Sampling Assumption to traffic analysis.
Bostrom says: “Cars in the next lane really do go faster”
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There are strained applications of anthropics, like the doomsday argument. “What happened here might happen elsewhere” is much more innocuous.
There are some more practical and harmless applications as well. In Nick Bostrom’s Anthropic Bias, for example, there is an application of the Self-Sampling Assumption to traffic analysis.
Bostrom says: “Cars in the next lane really do go faster”