Basically it’s the same sort of reasoning that gets you quantum suicide—“if the gun is loaded all the ‘me’ sees all heads, while if the gun is unloaded only a small fraction of me sees all heads, therefore if I see all heads the gun is more likely to be loaded.” One simply ignores the fact that the probability of all heads is the same in both cases.
No, no one I know of announced their intention to run the experiment and then did so. I would certainly not be able to tell if they succeeded or not, but that’s beside the point.
Basically it’s the same sort of reasoning that gets you quantum suicide—“if the gun is loaded all the ‘me’ sees all heads, while if the gun is unloaded only a small fraction of me sees all heads, therefore if I see all heads the gun is more likely to be loaded.” One simply ignores the fact that the probability of all heads is the same in both cases.
I guess, but then quantum suicide is a belief in belief, no one ever tests it for real. I wonder if all anthropics are like that.
More precisely, no one you’ve ever met has experimented with quantum suicide and then reported their success to you :-P
No, no one I know of announced their intention to run the experiment and then did so. I would certainly not be able to tell if they succeeded or not, but that’s beside the point.