AMA | September 2024

6889.588 - 6913.928 Sean Carroll

In fact, I am absolutely sure that I am not randomly selected from a uniform probability distribution on the set of all human beings who ever existed. Because most of those human beings don't have the first name Sean, right? There you go. I am atypical in this ensemble. But where did this probability distribution purportedly come from? And why does it get set on human beings, right?