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Apocalypse Now Does The Matrix: Anthropic adventures from doomsday to simulation: Richmond Anthropic adventures
Think 6 (17-18):29-40 (2008)
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Following on from Nick Bostrom's discussion of the Doomsday argument, Alasdair Richmond considers how anthropic reasoning can lead from Doomsday to some odd conclusions about computation and our place in reality.Author's Profile
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