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One explanation would be the Anthropic Principle. In 3% of universes you were killed today, you're just not living in one of those.
by noduerme 3y ago
One explanation would be the Anthropic Principle. In 3% of universes you were killed today, you're just not living in one of those.
- jacquesm 3y agoIn 97% of the universes dinosaur descendants rule planet earth. But on this one they got unlucky.
- MauranKilom 3y agoThis only works if there is nothing between "no impact" and "you die the same day as the impact". But we know that's not the case.
- noduerme 3y agoWhy "same day" and not same week or month? If it's not the same instant, then you're hypothesizing some kind of back-propagation (where alternate futures in which you die influence the likelihood of current events)[0]. Under that hypothesis, it would only matter whether some event would cause you to die sooner than you otherwise would. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1919 https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1919 [edit] FWIW, I actually corresponded with one of the authors of this paper back in 2007, and from what I could tell, this wasn't an attempt at parody, although now it might be dismissed as one. Personally I'm not willing to declare my (non)commitment to the theory either way.