AMA | September 2024

6937.106 - 6961.002 Sean Carroll

You know, so that's why it's pretty easy to see that this kind of argument can't be universally correct, because there's just no good way to decide the reference class. People try. Nick Bostrom, former Mindscape guest, has put a lot of work into this, wrote a book on it, and we talked about it in our conversation, but I find all the efforts to put that distribution on completely unsatisfying.