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

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Comment author: Cyan 17 May 2010 09:13:25PM 3 points [-]

What you have labeled anthropic reasoning is actually straight-up Bayesian reasoning. Wikipedia has an article on the problem, but only discusses the Bayesian approach briefly and with no depth. Jaynes also talks about it early in PT:LOS. In any event, to see the logic of the math, just write down the likelihood function and any reasonable prior.