MrMind comments on Open thread, Sep. 14 - Sep. 20, 2015 - Less Wrong
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Yeah, but the class of observers in the Doomsday argument is not infinite, usually one takes a small and a huge set, both finite. So in theory you could assign a uniform distribution.
Exactly, and that's an assumption I'm always willing to make, to circumvent the problem of an infinite class of reference.
The problem though is not the cardinality of the set, it's rather the uniformity of the distribution, which I think is what is implied by the word 'randomness' in S(S|I)A, because I feel intuitively it shouldn't be so, due to the very definition of observer.