Re: Several Criticisms of the Doomsday Argument

2008-01-23 Thread Rosy At Random
Hi, I'm just mulling this over in my head, but what effect do you guys think a many worlds context would have on the Doomsday argument? There seems to be an implicit assumption that we're _either_ in a universe where the human race has a long future, _or_ we're not. The missing possibility

Re: Several Criticisms of the Doomsday Argument

2008-01-23 Thread Russell Standish
This has been discussed on the list before. See my book Theory of Nothing, in particular page 88. Its available as a free download if you haven't bought a copy. Cheers On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:31:40PM -0800, Rosy At Random wrote: Hi, I'm just mulling this over in my head, but what