wedrifid comments on It's not like anything to be a bat - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 28 March 2010 01:01:48PM 0 points [-]

If I am using the anthropic principle and the observation that I am human, these together provide very strong evidence that we are in either world one or world two, with a slightly stronger nudge towards world one.

And here is where we are in simple disagreement. I say that knowing that I am human tells me very little about the configuration of matter in a different galaxy. Things that it does not tell me include, but are not limited to, "is the matter arranged in the form of a childlike humanoid, maybe green or grey. Probably with a big head and that can do complex thinking?"

I claim (and, again, it is a complex topic so I wouldn't bet on myself at odds of more than one gives you, say, 20) that this argument isn't weak evidence that is easily overwhelmed. It is not evidence at all.