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

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Comment author: CarlShulman 29 June 2010 12:43:10PM 0 points [-]

The regular Simulation Argument concludes with a disjunction (you have logical uncertainty about whether civilizations very strongly convergently fail to produce lots of simulations). SIA prevents us from accepting two of the disjuncts, since the population of observers like us is so much greater if lots of sims are made.