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> it is a tautology or truism >According to Jürgen Schmidhuber, the anthropic principle essentially just says that the conditional probability of finding yours
by GoblinSlayer 2y ago
> it is a tautology or truism
>According to Jürgen Schmidhuber, the anthropic principle essentially just says that the conditional probability of finding yourself in a universe compatible with your existence is always 1.
It already contains my claim.
- soulofmischief 2y agoIf you cherry-pick, sure, but you have to completely ignore the rest of the article. The excerpt you provided indeed points out it's a truism. The article also clearly states why that's problematic.
- GoblinSlayer 2y agoThe article just lists existing beliefs (even mentions PAP) and some people believe it's problematic. Those beliefs look out of context of fine tuning problem, but they are presented in a rudimentary form, so can't be analyzed, so we have to accept these beliefs merely exist.