CarlShulman comments on Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma - Less Wrong
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I hadn't come to that conclusion until you said it... but yes, that is about right. I'm not sure I would say all evidence is anthropic- I would prefer saying that all updating involves a step of anthropic reasoning. I make that hedge just because I don't know that direct sensory information is anthropic evidence, just that making good updates with that sensory information is going to involve (implicit) anthropic reasoning.