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

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Comment author: SilasBarta 24 September 2009 10:01:42PM 0 points [-]

My point was that the SIA(human) is less plausible, meaning you shouldn't base conclusions on it, not that the resulting calculus (conditional on its truth) would be different.

Comment author: Technologos 25 September 2009 04:59:06AM 0 points [-]

That's what I meant, though: you don't calculate the probability of SIA(human) any differently than you would for any other category of observer.