Perplexed comments on Theists are wrong; is theism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 24 January 2011 01:09:12AM 0 points [-]

I make it about 83% if you ignore the anthropic issues (by assuming that all universes have observers, or that having observers is independent of being interesting, for example). But if you want to take anthropic issues into account, you are only allowed to take the interestingness of this universe as evidence, not its observer-ladenness. So the answer would have to be "not enough data".

Comment author: Will_Sawin 24 January 2011 02:32:05AM 0 points [-]

You can't not be allowed to take the observer-ladenness of a universe as evidence.

Limiting case: Property X is true of a universe if and only if it has observers. May we take the fact that observers exist in our universe as evidence that observers exist there?