Many on this list have discussed the anthropic principle. It
essentially says that the conditional probability of finding
yourself in a universe compatible with your existence equals 1.
But unfortunately the anthropic principle does not have any
predictive power. It does NOT predict there won't
At 2:25 PM +0100 3/26/02, Juergen Schmidhuber wrote:
But unfortunately the anthropic principle does not have any
predictive power. It does NOT predict there won't be any flying
rabbits tomorrow.
But Hoyle did use the AP to predict specific facts about nuclear
energy levels, which were
At 3/26/02, you wrote:
Normally we do not know the true conditional probability
distribution p(next event | past). But assume we do know that
p is in some set P of distributions.
As I posted earlier my issue with this is how does one know p is in P
unless one can compute p, i.e. check it?
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