...and what we end up doing with all the galaxies we see in our telescopes - assuming there's no one out there - which seems to be the case. - 24:30
There aren't any aliens in all the visible galaxies?!? I thought we were likely to see a universe with many observers in it. What gives?
Our universe does seem to have infinitely many observers in it but that doesn't necessarily mean it has to have a particularly high density of them. It instead indicates that particularly densely populated universes are unlikely for some other reason (e.g. uFAI or other planet-wide or lightcone-wide existential risks). Alternatively, it could be that for some reason the computation 'Earth around roughly 2010' includes a disproportionately large amount of the measure of agents in the timtyler reference class. Perhaps we third millennium human beings are a particularly fun bunch to simulate and stimulate.
Sweet, there's another Bloggingheads episode with Eliezer.
Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky: Science Saturday: Purposes and Futures