I don't find this argument terribly convincing, especially since it (and apparently all of the author's reasoning[1]) rest upon the unstated assumption that we

I don't find this argument terribly convincing, especially since it (and apparently all of the author's reasoning[1]) rest upon the unstated assumption that we are randomly distributed over possible observers of the universe. The endpoint of that whole (bs) line of reasoning is that we are all Boltzmann brains[2]. In the end I am only convinced that the authors' main specialty is grabbing headlines. [1] from browsing a paper he co-authored with Nick Bostrom, offender #1 of bad probabilistic thinking [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain