AlexMennen comments on Of all the SIA-doomsdays in the all the worlds... - Less Wrong
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It's possible to argue that it is appropriate to use SIA in some of those examples, but SSA for the duration of the human race.
The doomsday argument doesn't say that, even if you do use SSA with the reference class of days that your daughter is in school. You're confusing the likelihood of the evidence given the hypothesis with the posterior probability of the hypothesis given the evidence.