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Even assuming the anthropic black-hole explanation, wouldn't we be able to run a collider off-planet somewhere? And once humans had reliably settled outside Earth and were self-sufficient there, we could run one on Earth as well.
Actually if such we believe such a theory, it affords us a sort of ensoul-ness or Buddha-nature test. Does our latest A.I. creation have a soul/consciousness/cosmic transcendental thingy? We'll put it on the Moon to observe and run the collider down here, and if we finally succeed this time (and destroy the Earth), the AI was considered worthy by the Anthropic Principle of carrying on our legacy.
Edit: we'd have to rename it though. The All-Conscious Principle?
That's not how it works; the principle is that I will always observe that I survive.
Er, you're right; I managed to confuse the anthropic principle with quantum immortality somehow.
No. I think maybe you conflated the anthropic principle/Quantum immortality with the Copenhagen interpretation of QM. Whether or not someone else observes you has nothing to do with anthropics or QI.
I think right now I may be conflating day and night, or sleeping and awakening. I'd better refrain from posting more until I rest...
If we put the LHC on the moon, we would (probably) see the moon destroyed, but the moon people would still see LHC fail inexplicably again and again.
In fact, there might be some branch now where the people aboard the International Space Station are now the last surviving humans.
Destruction by strangelet or black hole would probably be violent enough to destroy the ISS...
...still, that's the most disturbing idea I've encountered in a while. Congratulations.
TV Tropes currently has a page about that scenario under "But What About The Astronauts?", but the plausible connection to real life does add extra disturbance.
But the principle of quantum immortality is also that I will always observe that I survive. Actually, I'm not sure whether/how AP and QI differ in meaning in cases like this. (AP is about retrospective explanation, while QI is about anticipation?)
Then you should just build an AI worthy of being you.
Yes, but not under the anthropic quantum-vacuum-collapse explanation.
Oh good, then we actually can use this to assign meaningful priors to different anthropic explanations? A bit more and I may actually start accepting anthropic explanations as real theories :-)