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I think from a utilitarian point of view it's very proper to dismiss arguments that have no relevance to real life and no actual predictive capacity -- the doomsday argument, just as quantum immortality, seems to me the modern equivalent of Zeno's Achilles and the Turtle in irrelevant philosophical silliness.