Stuart_Armstrong comments on Avoiding doomsday: a "proof" of the self-indication assumption - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 24 September 2009 09:45:35AM 0 points [-]

I think I've got a proof somewhere that SIA (combined with the Self Sampling Assumption, ie the general assumption behind the doomsday argument) has no consequences on future events at all.

(Apart from future events that are really about the past; ie "will tomorrow's astonomers discover we live in a large universe rather than a small one").