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Why does anyone care about anthropics? It seems like a mess of tautologies and thought experiments that pays no rent in anticipated experiences.
There's a story about anthropic reasoning being used to predict properties of the processes which produce carbon in stars, before these processes were known. (apparently there's some debate about whether or not this actually happened)