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10 Post author: James_Miller 06 July 2014 06:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 August 2014 10:41:53PM 0 points [-]

That's an empty statement. It is always possible to take anthropic considerations into account by using [insert decision theory] + [insert prior]. Why did you choose that decision theory and more importantly that prior?

We have knowledge about only one universe. A single data point is insufficient to infer any information about universe selection priors.