From: Nick Bostrom (bostrom@ndirect.co.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 28 1999 - 09:45:51 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Of course. There are eleven people with the correct digit and nine
> people with nine different incorrect digits. Ergo, your digit is
> probably the right one.
Are you aware that this is the same reasoning that gives rise to the
Doomsday argument? Do you accept that argument? If not, why?
Nick Bostrom
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics
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