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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 16 December 2010 06:12:16PM *  18 points [-]

Here's a fun game: Try to disprove the hypothesis that every single time someone says "Abracadabra" there's a 99.99% chance that the world gets destroyed.

We haven't been anthropically forced into a world where humans can't say "Abracadabra".

Comment author: marchdown 04 January 2012 07:15:01PM 0 points [-]

Here's a fun game: Try to disprove the hypothesis that every single time someone says "Abracadabra" there's a 99.99% chance that the world gets destroyed.

We haven't been anthropically forced into a world where humans can't say "Abracadabra".

Oh, but a non-trivial number of people have mild superstitions against saying "Abracadabra". Does this not constitute (weak) anthropic evidence?

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