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In your examples, you're using your existence to answer questions about yourself, not about the planets. This is a special case, and not IMHO a very interesting one.
Answering questions about whether there are more or fewer people like you is equivalent to answering which planets exist or what characteristics they have, if those things coincide to some degree. If they don't, you won't get much out of anthropic reasoning anyway.
Re-read his examples. He already knows how many planets they are and how many people are on each of them. He's only trying to figure out which one he's on.