Regarding your final paragraph, the Grabby Aliens model implies that we are within the Anthropic Shadow[1] of the event. E.g., the humanity that lives in the po

Regarding your final paragraph, the Grabby Aliens model implies that we are within the Anthropic Shadow[1] of the event. E.g., the humanity that lives in the possible universe where the galaxy has already been eaten does not exist. [1] https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/cirkovic.pdf https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/cirkovic.pd...