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It involves calculating a 'correct measure' of how many partial duplicates of a computation exist:
www.nickbostrom.com/papers/experience.pdf
Anthropics does involve magical categories.
Right - but that's "Arthur C Clark-style magic" - stuff that is complicated and difficult - not the type of magic associated with mystical mumbo-jumbo.
We can live with some of the former type of magic - and it might even spice things up a bit.